Sunat provides income tax return information to more than 600,000 people

The National Superintendency of Customs and Tax Administration (Sunat) has made it easier for more than 600,000 individuals to know in advance what the amount they will have to pay to the treasury or, if applicable, receive as a refund, by sending a report with the most important data of their Annual Income Statement 2021.

The entity reported that the document has been sent to the electronic mailbox of these taxpayers (independent workers or who are independent and dependent at the same time), summarizes on its first page, with simple language and friendly design, the information on the total income received by the worker, the tax determined, the payments and withholdings made, as well as the balance to be paid or the refund, as appropriate.

The document, called Work Income Report 2021, contains in the following pages the total detail of these concepts, as well as the expenses that serve for the additional deduction of up to 3 UIT (S / 13,200), such as consumption in restaurants and hotels with electronic bills of sale, professional services with receipts for electronic fees, contributions to EsSalud by Domestic Workers, rental of real estate and services of tour guides and artisans.

In this way and for greater transparency, natural persons can know in advance all the information about their Income Tax and prepare to file their annual declaration, starting on Monday, February 14, through the People APP, from their cell phone and without leaving home.

Return and payment

It is estimated that this year some 228,000 natural persons, independent or dependent workers at the same time (job income), will receive a balance in their favor after filing their Income Tax return, because they accumulated deductible expenses of up to 3 UIT and /or an excess in the payment of taxes, for direct payments or monthly withholdings, during the past year.

The request is made online, once the tax return has been submitted through the People APP. The application gives you the option of registering the Interbank Account Code (CCI) so that Sunat makes the deposit directly to your account.

If, on the other hand, it is up to you to regularize the Income Tax, you can pay it with any credit or debit card or choose to request the deferral (up to six months) and/or installment (up to 36 installments) of the amount at that time. to regularize.

Sunat recommends not waiting for the final expiration schedule that goes from March 25 to April 8, according to the last digit of the RUC, to present the declaration.