Value added tax on COVID-19 testing kits
15.3.2023
Question for written answer E-000879/2023
to the Commission
Rule 138
Ciarán Cuffe (Verts/ALE)
The Commission proposal of 28 October 2020[1]for a Council directive waiving value added tax on COVID-19 testing kits was allowed to expire[2]at the end of 2022. This is despite the hundreds of deaths occurring every day in the EU from COVID-19[3]and the risk of new variants emerging from the COVID-19 surge in China[4].
In the light of the above:
Why has the Commission not renewed its proposal for the aforementioned Council directive?
Submitted: 15.3.2023
- [1] https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2020-10/201028_commission_proposal_vat_vaccines_tests.pdf.
- [2] https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/health/covid-antigen-test-prices-rise-25852697.
- [3] https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus#explore-the-global-situation.
- [4] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/01/14/asia-pacific/china-covid-dangerous-variants/.
Last updated: 22 March 2023