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Price of appliances must fall 6% in the coming days

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The price of home appliances must fall 6% in shops throughout the Paraná in the coming days, according to estimates by the state government. The reduction would reflect the minirreforma tax, which reduced the rate of Tax on Circulation of Goods and Services (ICMS) of thousands of products from the 1st of April. Paranaense Association of Supermarkets (aprašas) reported that the consumer is now reduced from the first day.

In an interview with the News Agency State, one of the managers of the mobile network market, Edson Luiz Vieira de Lima, said that prices should fall from the second fortnight of April. "The company policy is to pass these benefits to our customers. But we can not lower the price of products from appliances to buy before this reform. In two or three weeks start to get the products we buy with the reduction of 6%, so our consumers will feel the measure, "he explains.

This Thursday (2) some network of stores already announced that they are cheap. Renner reported that the stores are offering 6% discount on the value of the sectors of clothing, footwear and lingerie. In an official note, the company said "the measure is in accordance with Decree 4430/2009 of the State of Paraná to the reduction of VAT, proposed by Governor Roberto Requiao.

With minirreforma, the rates were reduced by a number of products which, in the accounts of government, comes to 95 thousand. For the most part, the reduction was 18% to 12%. Besides food, other products that come in range of adjustment are medicines, shoes, clothes, articles of table and kitchen appliances and simple.

The other range is reduced from 25% to 12%, but its scope is narrower. In the examples used by the State Department of Finance (Sefa) into the shampoo, deodorant and other items of personal hygiene. Some, however, were already on a special scheme which reduced the basis of calculation and as a consequence, the final tax remains the same. Now, however, the lower taxation of these items does not depend on the extension of other laws.



Source: Gazeta do Povo

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