The government is playing with VAT against the cultural sector

The government has ended the patience of the arts sector by failing to respond to the long and reasonable demand for a reduction in cultural VAT, which Italy has at 5 percent, France at 5.5 percent and Germany at 7 percent. Spain maintains 21 percent. … and only 10 when an artist sells directly. The Ministry of Culture, defender of cultural rights, taxes access to culture in this case due to administrative silence. The galleries have said enough. The data has been in the hands of the Executive for too long not to characterize as procrastination or evasion the passivity of the Urtasun team that throws the ball and blames the Treasury, as if they were two foreign entities that do not sit every week in the Council to decide policies. This measure is not a subsidy at the whim of the rich, but rather an investment in the productive fabric and democratic access to culture. Comparative grievance is a democratic divide. Culture in Spain is an industry that generates jobs, exports and tourism.