The deputy for Almería, Juanjo Salvador, regrets that the 21% tax burden currently levied on sports practice and high inflation have meant that "for many Andalusians doing sports has become a luxury"


The Andalusian Parliament has supported today to urge the central government to reduce the maximum VAT of 21% that is applied to the practice of sports activities to 10%. The proposal, at the initiative of the PP, has had the support of Vox and the rejection of PSOE and Por Andalucía, also advocates promoting measures that facilitate the reconciliation between academic and learning activity and sports practice, from the base sport and from leisure to federated and high-performance sports.

According to the deputy for Almería and spokesman for the Tourism, Culture and Sports Commission, Juanjo Salvador, the initiative was born with the aim of highlighting the need to promote physical exercise and the practice of sport as an essential element for the well-being of Andalusians.

"If we make a comparison of our environment, we see that Spain is among the seven European countries with the highest rate of VAT on sports, when the example should be nations like the Netherlands and Ireland, with 9%, and Sweden, with 6%. , Bulgaria, 5% or Luxembourg, with 3%”, he pointed out. And he regretted that, "if we add to this data the very high inflation that we suffer, and that the Government of Sánchez has not been able to control, we see that for many Andalusians doing sports has become a luxury, something that we cannot allow ”.

The non-legal proposal bets, on the one hand, to apply a reduced VAT of 10% in the provision of sports services, as well as in the rental of materials and equipment for sports and rental of courts and sports facilities, offered by individuals and legal. Likewise, it demands that this reduction also apply to sports services provided in educational centers by companies or associations of fathers and mothers to facilitate the practice of physical activity from childhood, also encouraging the expansion of the training offer linked to physical and sports activity. .

In this line, the initiative is committed to continuing to promote the Campeones en Valores and "Mentor 10" programs of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports, which promote sports practice at school age, and values ​​the importance of increasing the hours course of Physical Education in the different educational stages, including the university ones "given the need to combat the sedentary lifestyle associated with the use of social networks that is imposed among young people".

Salvador has defended that sport is also a fundamental tool to promote social inclusion and non-discrimination. In this sense, the initiative values ​​very positively the approval by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports of a pioneering line of specific subsidies to promote sport among people with disabilities, aimed at the acquisition of sports material and equipment through sports clubs and sections, and stresses the importance of implementing measures aimed at promoting these values ​​in the Sports environment and fighting against discrimination against Women, LGBTIphobia, racism and xenophobia in these areas.

Likewise, the deputy for Almería has also placed emphasis on the beneficial synergies that are generated from the relationship in the same council of the areas of Tourism, Culture and Sports, betting, for example, on promoting the collaboration of the Junta de Andalucía with the sector Andalusian culture and the celebration of major international sporting and cultural events.

In this sense, and in order to further improve the economic data derived from these activities, the initiative urges promoting the "development of common access tools that allow the different actors to act in advance, and have the ability to predict changes in cycles and the new trends in the tourism field”, pointed out Salvador.