Significant differences
By Paul le Clercq · 1 minute ago · Edited: 1 minute ago
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If you bought tobacco, olive oil or fruit juices in September, it was significantly more expensive than in the same month a year earlier. But if you had a dog, filled up with diesel and bought glassware, then you were in luck. An overview.
Unfortunately, life became more expensive again for most people in September. For a basket of products and services you paid 3.5 percent more than last year, it turns out from figures from Statistics Netherlands. But that’s an average.
It really matters what you buy. The prices of some things actually rose much more, while you spent considerably less on other items and services.
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Smokers were bad off in September, and they are the intention from the government. The excise duty on tobacco and tobacco products was increased on April 1 and this is still having an effect.
Rolling tobacco was almost 45 percent more expensive in September than in the same month a year earlier, tobacco rose 35 percent in price and cigarettes 32 percent. This was also the top 3 of products with the largest price increases.
Olive oil also became more expensive. That had nothing to do with excise duties, but with a disappointing harvest. In countries such as Italy, Greece and Spain it was very dry and fewer olives grew.
There were also significant price increases for fruit and vegetable juices (+20 percent), mineral water and soft drinks (+15.4 percent) and light alcoholic and malt beer (+9.9 percent). This is due to a higher tax on non-alcoholic drinks.
Dog tax -27 percent
Dog owners were lucky: in September the dog tax was 27 percent lower than a year earlier.
If you were just ready for a new set, you were also lucky. The price of glass, crystal and earthenware was more than 16 percent lower than a year earlier, bed linen was almost 12 percent cheaper and household textiles (such as tea towels) almost 10 percent cheaper.
There was also something to laugh about at the pump. Diesel was almost 16 percent cheaper, gasoline almost 11 percent. This is because the oil price was lower than in September last year.
Dried vegetables are exactly the same price
Some products were exactly the same price in September as a year earlier, so inflation was 0. This applied to hearing aids, dried vegetables and products for outdoor recreation, among others.
You probably don’t buy those products every day, but if you need them, it’s a bonus.
Limited price increase
Some important products that you use often or even almost daily increased in price only slightly, at least less than the total inflation of 3.5 percent.
This applies, for example, to food (+1.6 percent, without the effect of drinks and tobacco) and clothing (+2.1 percent). Although natural gas became 2.9 percent more expensive, electricity became 3.9 percent cheaper.
In this video you can see that the high inflation we previously faced did little damage:
