So far more than €16 million in vouchers have already been redeemed through 500,000 transactions in Maltese and Gozitan businesses, the Minister for the Economy and Industry Silvio Schembri said today.

He explained how the €16 million redeemed vouchers are divided into €6 million digital vouchers and €10 million printed vouchers.

The Minister went on to say that observing the voucher transactions on a daily basis, an average of around €390,000 in transaction value, every day from Monday to Thursday. The value of weekend transactions doubles, as the value from Friday to Sunday reaches €624,000 per day.

€9.2 million were redeemed in red vouchers and €6.9 million were redeemed in blue vouchers, at a total of 6,677 businesses on the Maltese Islands. There are 4,092 businesses which are accepting blue vouchers and 2,585 businesses which are utilising red vouchers.

Minister Schembri appealed to businesses to keep a copy of the printed vouchers and the serial number of the same vouchers for accounting purposes, in addition to keeping VAT receipts. This is important, as from time to time MIMCOL, which is leading the process, will be carrying out audit exercises, he said.

By Saturday, the 4th of July, MaltaPost had completed the process of delivering the vouchers to 290,652 of the 328,503 people who were entitled to printed vouchers.

He noted that there are still 37,851 people who have yet to collect their vouchers from the MaltaPost offices in Malta and Gozo.

The helpline numbers and email for any information required both by the public as well as businesseses are listed below:

Consumer Helpline 8007 4904

Email consumers@vouchersmimcol.com

Business Helpline 8007 4950

Email business@vouchersmimcol.com

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