A control plan that is Tax Administration (SRI) includes plastic surgeons and beauty centers also known as SPAs.

For their services, they must issue valid sales invoices with the appropriate value added tax (VAT) rate, submit declarations and pay the associated taxes.

How much can ‘influencers’ earn and how does this group that is the target of SRI pay taxes?

The entity announced that it is carrying out several actions to check whether those engaged in these activities fulfill their tax obligations, as part of the Innovation + Collection plan, one of the main axes of which is the creation of fair controls.

The Director General of SRI, Francisco Briones, reported in a statement that “The Tax Administration is implementing strategies to achieve a tax culture in different segments of taxpayers, including aesthetic centers that do not offer medical services and plastic surgeons that do not charge the 12% rate when their interventions are not for health problems”.

DSI will control those who provide accommodation services through digital platforms

It is also reminded that paragraph 2 of Article 56 of the Law on the Internal Tax Regime, in accordance with Article 191 of its implementing regulations, stipulates that health services have a VAT rate of 0%, and plastic surgery services or aesthetic medical procedures have a rate of 12 %. VAT rate, except for those interventions that are carried out as a result of proven diseases or accidents.

How will the control be carried out?

SRI has undertaken a control plan that includes other activities such as persons providing accommodation services and influential persons – At least 500 were identified last February–.