The reduction in VAT from 21% to 6% on gas bills from April 1 for all households. This is what the federal government has promised to help them deal with soaring energy prices.
But here it is, the condominiums (either the owners of an apartment in a building or their tenants) should stay on the floor. What nevertheless concerns 1.5 million dwellings, i.e. 2 to 3 million Belgians, saccording to information from our colleagues at Sudinfo.
In question: the fact that they depend on a common, collective heating, managed by a trustee. In other words, thehe condominiums with common, non-separate heating are treated as professional or industrial consumers.
The anger of representatives of co-owners
Incomprehensible for Olivier Hamal, president of the SNPC, the National Syndicate of Owners and Co-owners: “We do not understand this contempt, this ignorance of the world of co-ownership and of the fact that they are individual consumers. We are calling for the protection measures for ordinary consumers to be extended to co-ownerships, essentially made up of natural persons”.
