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The Portuguese Association of Large Families (APFN) considers that the reduction of VAT on electricity with respect to large families is “totally unfair in its principles,” they say in a statement. For APFN, the solution would be to base the reduction of VAT on electricity on “per capita consumption” and not on “consumption of a house”.
According to the association, the government’s measure reveals “a total social insensitivity towards large families and towards the homes where most of the people live”. APFN highlights that the measure “maintains the injustice in relation to large families, although [o governo] affirm otherwise ”.
In the statement, APFN gives an example and explains: “a single person who wastes energy and consumes up to 100 kWh (100 kWh month per person), has reduced VAT, but a family of 8 people who is very responsible in the use of energy and consumes 151 kWh (19 kWh month per person) already pays the highest VAT ”.
On the other hand, applying the measure only to those who have 6.9 KVA of contracted power is also especially penalizing for large families. For them it is impossible to hire a low power, due to their own family dynamics: they have a lot of clothes and dishes to wash and iron, a lot of people to feed and, with their father and mother working full time, they have to do everything. tasks simultaneously. Thus, all the families that find themselves in this situation are inordinate.
APFN affirms that “large families have been the most affected by the increase in VAT on electricity from the beginning, so they should have been the first to agree to a decriminalization measure. What we see, on the contrary, is that an inappropriate regime is applied to them and they are relegated to March 2021 ”.
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