Saxony's hotel and restaurant association (Dehoga) is permanently demanding a reduced sales tax for restaurants and catering service providers. "The hospitality industry is under pressure," said chief executive Axel Klein in Dresden on Tuesday. In the Corona years, he said, 1452 inns disappeared from the map, "an average of three per municipality." And in the result of a current inquiry 7.7 per cent of the enterprises see their existence by the 2024 for meals planned return to the value added tax of 19 per cent acutely endangered. With it once again over 570 Gastgewerblichen enterprises in the Free State would stand before the end, said small. Since in addition 49.5 percent are still undecided, further closures could follow with a time delay.
The reduction to 7 percent sales tax for meals had come into force in 2020 in the Corona pandemic and is now to expire at the end of 2023. "It's not just about restaurants, it's about providing fresh, healthy food made from local products to the public, and to tourists," Klein said. In addition, restaurants also supplied for daycare centers, schools, social institutions as well as companies. Rising costs for personnel, energy and raw materials pressed on turnovers under pre-Corona level and endangered the economy.
