Daniel Noboa’s Bloc and government authorities have begun a hunt for votes in the National Assembly to overcome the setback that his proposal to increase the value added tax (VAT) will have, as his legislative allies from the Christian Social Party and Revolution Citizen predict that he will never will not vote for a tax increase.

Government representative, Valentina Centeno (ADN), is in charge of searching and gathering every legislator who shows an interest in supporting the regime in the desire to get the funds in the fastest way, which is an increase in VAT to 13% permanently and two additional points temporarily, whose resources they said. they will go to finance the internal conflict, to overcome the social and economic crisis.

With no certainty of votes, the National Assembly opens a debate on an emergency law that increases VAT at two different times

Centeno said that the government is open to dialogue and revision of the VAT increase figure, and the aspiration is to collect a figure ranging between 1,700 to 2,000 dollars, it is a significant amount and will be received immediately.

The first action to gain followers for the government’s proposal was to gather a group of legislators from the Construye movement and its economic adviser, Luis Fernando Ayala, to announce the scope and economic figures of the state and the need to approve the urgent project. of VAT.

The Minister of Economy and Finance, Juan Carlos Vega, and the Deputy Minister in the Government, Esteban Torres, participated in the meeting, where the legislators of Construya expressed their concern about the fiscal gap that exists in the country and their vision that the economy is in therapy. intensive.

Bench coordinator, Camilo Salinas, He said that at the meeting with the Government, the accounts and fiscal treasury of the state were honest, which serves to clearly see the financial situation in the country and establish that there is a fiscal deficit of 8000 million dollars.

Faced with this, Construye, although he has not yet defined his vote, made it clear that he is willing to analyze and even support the VAT increase, but only if the situation is made transparent and if the state takes a series of measures that include decisions and sacrifices.

Salinas specified that the VAT increase is a patch measure, as it will partially solve the problem, but there are other alternatives that will improve the situation, such as targeting the subsidy for gasoline, which would generate about 2,000 million dollars, narrowing the tax apparatus of the State, which would return around 600 million dollars, and by selling public companies, they will be able to get between 600 and 800 million dollars, and the VAT increase is the last alternative.

The political leader of the Social Christian Party, Jaime Nebot, With a video published on social networks, he marked the field in front of this urgent project, whose first debate will be on January 27 of this year, and together with the legislators Vicente Taiano and Dallyana Passailaigue, they clarify that they support security and that they fought with harsh punishment against criminals and that they presented alternatives without affecting the most vulnerable.

Nebot points out in the video that Ecuadorians know that they have been fighting crime since 1984 and that this time they are giving money to the government so that it does so successfully, and “that the money will not come from the pockets of individuals, but from companies; What we will not do is support an increase in VAT or any other tax, because that means you will have less money to buy, and when you do buy, you will pay dearly for it.”

This statement by the three leaders of the PSC reduced the possibility of reaching an understanding at the legislative level, as suggested by the legislators Jorge Acaiturri -Villa and Otto Vera, who did not close themselves in the zone of possible support. , from Thursday Acaiturri-Villa said “I will never say never in my life, but we are not in favor of taxes, we believe there are other mechanisms.”

From the sector of independent parliamentarians, Jaime Guevarahe pointed out that although there are changes in the first discussion report of the urgent project, such as the proposal for a public consultation on ITT, it is not enough.

The representative of Pastaza believes that VAT would not be an optimal measure, because basically the tax burden is still borne by those who have the least, because when it increases, the escalation of the price increase of everything occurs. He said that the group of independents, which consists of about nine representatives, will not vote for an increase in VAT, unless taxes for those who have the most are included.

Lucio Gutiérrez from the Patriotic Society Party (PSP), He predicted that he would vote against the project, because it is again proposed that the people pay the bill for the irresponsibility, incompetence and corruption of governments.

VAT, he explained, is an unfair tax paid by the whole world, because the richest in the country pay the same as the poorest who barely survive on $30 a month.