Reduction of ICMS leads to savings of 2.4% to consumers
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Reduction of ICMS on nearly 95 billion consumer goods popular generated a 1.05% drop in prices accumulated from April to September, while the cost of living, as measured by the Index of Consumer Price Index (CPI), in Curitiba , a high of 1.35% over the same period. Thus, the gain of the families was 2.4% with a reduction in the rate. In some groups, such as the Health and Personal Care, the gain was even greater than 3%.
The calculation is the Paraná Institute of Economic and Social Development (Ipardes) and was released on Wednesday (06). The law reduces 25% or 18% to 12% rate VAT for items of popular consumption was implemented in April by the government of Parana.
The savings achieved by households when comparing the groups with items that have lower tax bracket with the same groups in the CPI can be illustrated as follows: If a product costs R$ 100,00 and with the reduction of the VAT, it fell 1 , 05%, now costs R$ 98,95. If he was not influenced by the reduction in the rate and follow the general increase in the CPI, it would cost R$ 101,35. The difference is R$ 2.40, or 2.4%.
For the calculation of the items covered by the Act of ICMS, the Ipardes collected monthly, in Curitiba, about 35 thousand prices of products consumed by households have an income ranging from 1 to 40 minimum wages, ie they earned from R$ 465,00 to R$ 18.600,00. The methodology is the same used for the calculation of the Index Consumer Price Index (CPI).
The biggest drop came from the Home Appliances Group (-3.45%). Items were most prominent freezer (-7.41%), bed linen (-6.05%), refrigerators (-4.29%) and television (-1.85%). Already the biggest increase was seen in metal utensil (7.33%).
The group Transport and Communication fell 2.80% against an increase of 0.11% in the CPI. The reductions came from parts for vehicles (-3.52%) and battery vehicles (-0.36%).
In the group Health and Personal Care, the cumulative result from April to September was down 2.10% as the CPI increased by 0.83%. Highlight for price decrease in toothpaste (-6.35%), shampoo (-5.67%) and medicines antrigripais (-5.62%), vitamins (-3.80%), anti-infective (-3, 18%) and anti-inflammatory (-2.56%).
The Food and Beverage fell by 0.97%. Have negative growth of corn flakes (-8.57%), canned tuna (-7.94%), mineral water (-7.39%), chicken broth (-7.36%), gelatin, fruit powder (-6.69%) and mayonnaise (-6.07%). The largest high in this group came from cod (12.39%) and dehydrated soup (9.84%).
The clothing group was the only one having high (0.14%) contrasting with aa drop of 0.19% in the CPI. Almost all items of this group were affected by the reduction of VAT, except jewelry and watches, that in calculating the CPI, had low expressive influencing the final result.
In clothing, stood out with the fall clothes - female (-33.13%), male (-17.77%) and child (-14.37%), children's sporting group (-27.14%), sweater pajamas and female (-10.31%), lady's purse (-7.97%), men's shirt (-7.77) and women's shoes (-3.83%).
The high in this group came from all sports female (30.37%), skirt and shorts female (21.84%) and footwear (15.96%), all children (15.26%), infant dress (15.08 %) and women's sandal (14.27%).
Another group with high, although lower than that in the CPI, was that of Personal Expenses (2.17%), where the contract rose 10.28%. The CPI, this group showed an increase of 3.13%. The Housing group had items covered by the reduction of ICMS.
Source: State News Agency of Paraná
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