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They are going to write to Rajoy and Montoro The businessmen who manage private gyms in Spain raise the alarm. The increase in VAT that the Government has approved for its facilities will cause a significant number of regular users to cancel due to the mandatory increase in rates.  The National Federation of Sports Facilities Employers (FNEID) predicts that the increase in VAT from 8 to 21% that will be applied in September will mean the closure of 800 gyms and the consequent loss of a total of 4,000 jobs . Around nine million people in Spain practice physical exercise in private sports facilities. This figure is equivalent to 43% of citizens between 15 and 75 years old. All of them will be affected by the increase in the value added tax and, according to the businessmen, a good number of users will have to stop going to the gym as they cannot pay the monthly fee.

They assure that their health will be directly affected, since they will not be able to do physical exercise , and it will be a step backwards in the development of the healthy life that the institutions defend. In Spain there are a total of 16,000 private sports facilities , which employ 75,000 people . The FNEID acknowledges that it totally  Middle East Mobile Number List disagrees with the VAT increase. As El Confidencial Digital has learned , the employers' association has decided to take action and is drafting a letter that will be sent to Mariano Rajoy and the Minister of Finance , Cristóbal Montoro, to reverse their decision on the gyms. They will ask that these facilities be only taxed with the super-reduced VAT of 4% Private sports facilities suffered a two-point VAT increase during the government of José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero.



This decision led to the closure of around 700 gyms. The organization gives as an example the tax increase in Portugal , which seriously affected the sector with 55 million euros in losses: it caused 28% layoffs and withdrawals of 16.53% of clients.A single voice in matters related to the country's economic policy, instead of the current bicephaly between Luis de Guindos (Economy) and Cristóbal Montoro (Treasury). In addition to some of those mentioned above, in the economic spheres other names are also being considered as candidates to become that new 'strong man' of the economy . One of them, relatively surprising, is that of the current Minister of Industry, José Manuel Soria . What stands out in him is his dual political and technical dimension , his knowledge of three languages ​​( English, French and German ) and his people skills, essential requirements right now to get Spain out of the quagmire.