{"id":124744,"date":"2015-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/ant-claims-tourists-will-spend-10-less-on-accommodation-and-meals-after-vat-reduction-to-9\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T22:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T20:44:38","slug":"ant-claims-tourists-will-spend-10-less-on-accommodation-and-meals-after-vat-reduction-to-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/ant-claims-tourists-will-spend-10-less-on-accommodation-and-meals-after-vat-reduction-to-9\/","title":{"rendered":"ANT claims tourists will spend 10% less on accommodation and meals after VAT reduction to 9%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Romanian and foreign tourists who choose Romania as a holiday destination will spend 10% less on accommodation and meals after the VAT on food is reduced to 9% starting in June, a measure added to the tax reduction on tourism packages since January 1st.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced that the value-added tax will be reduced to 9% starting in June for all agri-food products, including non-alcoholic beverages and public catering services.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Government also maintains its intention to reduce the standard VAT rate to 20% starting in January, after budget revenues in the first quarter of this year were 5 billion RON higher than in the same quarter last year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafax.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Mediafax<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By how much will tourist spending in Romania decrease?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to ANT, tourists will spend approximately 10% less on accommodation and meals following the VAT reductions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When does the 9% VAT reduction for food take effect?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The VAT reduction to 9% for all agri-food products and public catering services comes into effect starting in June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What other tax measures are being implemented?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the food VAT cut, tourism packages saw a tax reduction on January 1st, and the standard VAT rate is planned to drop to 20% in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian and foreign tourists who choose Romania as a holiday destination will spend 10% less on accommodation and meals after the VAT on food is reduced to 9% starting in June, a measure added to the tax reduction on tourism packages since January 1st. Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced that the value-added tax will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-124744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124744"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=124744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}