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VAT from 8 to 21%. The Spanish women went twelve times a year in 2002, now they do it six times and will go to four The increase of 13 VAT points that will affect hair salons will cause the direct dismissal of 10,000 professionals in a period of six months nationwide. The number of customers will decrease due to rising prices. Associations, guilds and entrepreneurs of hairdressing chains throughout Spain are already talking about a cumulative loss of 40,000 jobs in the sector in the next two years. This is the forecast that businessmen make, according to what an official spokesperson for the Luís and Tachi hair salons tells El Confidencial Digital . Their figures are alarming. In women used to go to the hairdresser an average of between eleven and twelve times a year. Since then, this figure has decreased by 50%.
The VAT increase will further reduce the average by up to four times a year. The man usually cuts his hair between seven and eight times per school year. With the increase in VAT he will go down to six, even surpassing women in the number of times he goes to a hairdresser. This situation is due to the foreseeable price rise to which Middle East Mobile Number List the sector is exposed. In the case of women, they usually spend a national average of around 30 euros each time they go to the hairdresser. Men, on the other hand, spend an average of 14 euros. The average increase for a woman will be about 3.90 euros and for a man 1.80 euros. Hairdresser associations from different provinces and communities are already proposing solutions to the Government, such as delaying the VAT increase until next year or a progressive increase of 3% each year.

Some hair salons, in order to combat this measure, will provide solutions , such as providing more service than they offered by increasing the cost (for example, not charging for shampoo, mask, etc. They will also carry out marketing strategies such as gift vouchers, discounts and sales. For this reason, the Treasury had already provisioned enough money in the regional liquidity fund for the Board to take advantage of a line of credit that would stabilize its public accounts.Slim 's relationship with Fainé has been very close since the Catalan entity acquired 20% of Inbursa, its financial arm, in May 2008. That operation gave the bank two seats on the board of directors of the Mexican company. Subsequently, Carlos Slim took stakes in Caixabank when the bank decided to go public in July of last year.
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