The executive director of the Agency for the Promotion of Private Investment (Proinversión), Rafael Ugaz, assured that, until the third quarter of 2021, the State has awarded a total of 29 Tax Works (OxI) projects for a total of S / 350 million. This represents 44% more than what was awarded in the same period of 2020; and 33% in 2019, during the prepandemic season.
As part of his presentation at the discussion “From commitment to action: perspectives and opportunities for tax works”, the head of Proinversión stated that this year working together with the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and other sectors such as Housing, Construction and Sanitation, in addition to regional governments, to overcome the levels of prendemic in terms of the amount of investment and number of projects awarded.
“Even if we compare with the first three quarters of 2019 we have increased by 33%. In other words, we are well above the amount we had in the pre-pandemic. These results show the efforts of the Peruvian State as a whole to create more and better quality public services infrastructure, generating better development conditions, ”said Ugaz.
In this sense, Ugaz Vallenas explained that, since its creation in 2009, the tax works mechanism has led to investment commitments for a total of S / 5.8 billion, translated into 446 public investment projects.
“This has been thanks to the joint work of 17 regional governments, 46 provincial municipalities, almost 130 district municipalities, 8 entities of the national government, public universities and more than 120 private companies that have been participating in the financing of this type of projects, which has benefited to more than 19 million Peruvians ”, he specified.
“At Proinversión we continue working to provide free technical advice and assistance to national, regional and local government entities, public universities, articulating them with private companies interested in financing these projects,” he stressed.
For her part, the director of Decentralized Investments of Proinversión, Denisse Miralles, stressed that, currently, Peru has 508 projects for more than S / 6,000 million.
This assertion was supported by Ivana Llaque, manager of legal and institutional affairs of the Alliance for Tax Works (Aloxi), who noted that studies should be promoted that demonstrate positive results of this mechanism, and thus have “a greater dissemination with evidence, that it achieves that more companies join the use of these projects ”.
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