Life gets cheaper as VAT cut kicks in
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Apple Inc and other consumer brands lowered prices for their products in China this week as a cut in the country’s value-added tax fell.
Price tags for products on Apple’s China website were lowered on Monday morning — when the VAT fell to 13 percent from 16 percent — including a discount of up to 500 yuan (US$74.44) for some of its latest iPhone models.
Suggested retail prices for brands including LVMH’s Louis Vuitton and Kering’s Gucci were also cut by around 3 percent, according to local media reports.
It follows announcements last month from car brands BMW AG and Mercedes-Benz, which said prices for several car models would drop following the tax changes.
China said in March that it would cut taxes and fees for all companies by nearly 2 trillion yuan in 2019, with the manufacturing, transportation and construction sectors set to benefit as it looks to stimulate a slowing economy.
The world’s second-largest economy is growing at its weakest pace in almost three decades amid lower domestic demand and a trade war with the United States. Several Chinese electronics retailers lowered prices for iPhones in January.
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