Consumers buy food stocks before VAT hike while retailers hurry up to change labels
Meanwhile, retailers are struggling to change the prices for products on their shelves to comply with the 24 percent VAT from July 1st. This means some of the large retailers will close down a couple of hours ahead today, or not work non-stop if they usually had this program so that they can work though the nigh to calculate the new prices and change the labels.
Besides changing the price labels themselves, retailers also need to change the software to add the 24 percent VAT rate instead of the 19 percent one.