The “strike” of meal vouchers is confirmed for Wednesday 15 June, which will not be accepted in bars, restaurants, grocery stores, supermarkets and hypermarkets belonging to the main trade and distribution associations: Ancd Conad, ANCC Coop, Federdistribuzione, FIEPeT -Confesercenti, Fida and Fipe-Confcommercio.
Federdistribuzione reminds us in a note, underlining that it is “a drastic action made necessary to urgently ask the Government for a radical reform of the meal vouchers system with the aim of safeguarding an important service for millions of workers and making it economically sustainable. “.
“In Italy we have unfair commissions, the highest in Europe. We are talking about 20% of the nominal value of each voucher ”, says Alberto Frausin, President of Federdistribuzione. «It is a mechanism greatly influenced by the discounts obtained by Consip in the tenders launched with the logic of the maximum discount. It is a pity that the savings that the public purchasing center manages to obtain in the assignment of the lots of meal vouchers are substantially canceled by the tax credit that the issuing companies obtain against the VAT difference between the rates applied for sale and collection. Our companies pay the bill ». “We want meal vouchers, a valuable service for millions of workers and families, to continue to be used in the future, but this will only be possible on the basis of reasonable economic conditions and a radical reform of the current system which pays unsustainable commissions on companies and endangers their economic equilibrium ”, underlines Frausin.