Electricity bills power ahead in Spain as goverment slaps heavy tax on bills
IVA rate has increased
The Spanish government has refused to bow to pressure from the European Union and will continue to slap 21 percent Valued Added Tax on energy bills. Until recently is was just five percent. Householders will notice a big increase in their bills. The European Union, alarmed at the sudden surge in electricity bills in some member countries, had been calling for action but so far it has fallen on deaf ears.
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You, we, he, she, do not pay taxes. They take them.
This high tax on electricity has to stop.
We have already been through all that. It is why Endesa was charging people to have solar a few years ago, and much of Europe laughed at the Spanish for charging people to use green energy. The power companies had years of enormous costs to pay off. This news item is old news, We were all advised last year by Endesa that bills would be going up at the start of this year because of the VAT change. Its been going two months now so why MDB suddenly decide its newsworthy ??? For those on the grid the key is using your power wisely at cheap hours. This website gives an hourly cost each day. https://www.esios.ree.es/en/pvpc as well as an enormous amount of further info for those willing to dig deeper.
Interesting Article , Like many things happing these day´s they are not very well planned out as as a consequence down the road some thing´s start to occur which are not really good and they still cost money to maintain and keep running , be careful about bragging about not paying for any electricity they will charge you shortly regardless the Government need´s the money and the government is spending it like it´s raining from the sky and your eco friendly Tesla Just got a lot more expensive to run !
WildwoodHaven't used a generator at all this year. My Li batteries only dropped to 50% once. It's about sensible power management, heavy items during daylight hours or on timers. And I'm north side of the mountains with only 3 hours of direct sunlight in December.
Morgan WilliamsUs too. Havent paid an electricity bill in 13 years. And with our latest upgrade to our system, we use about half as much diesel in the winter and none in the summer unless, maybe we get three days of rain and clouds. Where we are at we couldnt even connect to the grid if we wanted to.
This is stupid. I can't understand how this will be good for anything or anybody. Maybe it's like south Africa, where the adoption of solar energy has been so prolific that the monopolistic power company Eskom is now resorting to desperate measures to force customers to pay for power they aren't even connected to. I've become completely independent of Endesa with solar power. I'm not even connected to Endesa. I'm not paying them one cent. I bet they hate that.
PSOE the party of the working family.....
The war in the Ukraine and hobbies like the green deal need to be paid...
5% was a bargain. The EU's average standard VAT rate is 21.6 percent, more than six percentage points higher than the minimum standard VAT rate required by EU regulation.