The government is satisfied with the Law on Economic Efficiency and Employment and although Economy Minister Juan Carlos Vega said that they are aware of the problems that the manufacturing sectors are already facing in terms of insecurity and their new concerns about the tax reform, He noted that “we all have to pay part of the bill as this country would move forward.”

He said this this Wednesday, December 20, during a conversation in Guayaquil, where he also spoke about the economic situation the country is going through.

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The Minister assured that he understands that businessmen currently have “a lot of extraordinary costs” for the implementation of security, which he believes that with a much more articulated scheme in the Government, these costs and these individual efforts will have to disappear. “I think this is an issue that must be resolved immediately so that companies have the confidence to continue hiring, continue to grow, continue to invest based on new opportunities in terms of free zones, public-private alliances that the new law opens up. . the private sector.”

Exporters rejected the creation of self-taxation. “But the problem is that we all have to pay part of the bill for this country to move forward, even though they are not 100% satisfied with these problems, I believe they understand and will support us,” Vega emphasized.

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On the other hand, he indicated that there are very important jobs in energy, great interest in investing in new wind farms. “There are geothermal investments for energy production that are very close to starting, hopefully in the first quarter of next year. We have to remove some obstacles with which we work with multilaterals, and there are also very large private investments with the wind farm in Loja and the photovoltaic park in El Arom in Manabí.”

Vega confirmed that they have already paid the thirteenth salary to “teachers, doctors, police, the entire public service, and we have also somehow managed to reduce the debts with the decentralized autonomous governments, which also have their own needs at the level of all parish committees from all over the country”, he pointed out. .

Among the priorities is the payment of debts to external healthcare operators, which are estimated at around 50 million dollars to date, for which they are “looking for funds everywhere”.

Regarding the economic plan, Deputy Minister of Economy Ana Cristina Avilés said that it is structured on four pillars: the sustainability of public finances, the guarantee of the sufficiency of resources to finance the provision of services and public investments, work on income and expenditure structures for fair distribution, enable all mechanisms that encourage the attraction of investments.