Rund Abdelfatah
COULD Andalucia’s most controversial attraction be the next casualty of Spain’s imminent IVA (VAT) increase?
From September 1, IVA on bullfighting is to increase from 8% to 21% in a move that is expected to net the Treasury €8 million more per year.
The sector is already suffering – with Andalucia hosting 27 fewer fights in the first six months of 2012 than in the same period last year.
San Sebastian has just announced it will not host any more fights from 2013, with its mayor saying the bullring cannot be maintained at the public’s expense ‘for just seven bullfights a year’.
“We deeply regret the government’s decision to increase VAT on bullfights,” said a spokesman for Spain’s bullfighting union Mesa del Toro.
“It is a hard blow to bullfighting.”
When I see a bullfight I expect so get my money’s worth. So, if they are going to raise the tax 13% then I expect to see 13% more violence and torture. They need to stab the bull at least one extra time for every 5% increase, so we should see at least 2.5 extra bull stabbings.
Good. Putting up VAT on bullfighting is justified; putting it up from 8% to 21% for schoolbooks shows Rajoy to care nothing about education.
For once I am happy if this means that Bullfighting will end eventually. We are in the 21st century, we do not need to recreate past rather barbaric traditions. We have evolved, haven’t we?
Reality you need your head read son! what an awful post… this is a baby step in the right direction to ban this farce!
I’d make an exception and go to a bullfight, if they put Reality in the ring with it. One can dream…