The Legislative Technical Unit must submit a report on the fulfillment of constitutional requirements before being qualified in the CAL.
The urgent bill for Economic Development and Fiscal Sustainability after the COVID-19 pandemic, sent by the Executive to the National Assembly, passed to the Legislative Technical Unit (UTL), to prepare the report on compliance with the requirements prior to the qualification by the Legislative Administration Council (CAL), while the legislative blocks began the analysis of its content.
In the non-binding report, the UTL must verify if the project refers to a single subject, if it contains sufficient explanatory memorandum, recitals and articles, and if there are alerts that affect constitutional rights and guarantees.
In the analysis of the first draft of the Law for the Creation of Opportunities, submitted at the end of September, the UTL took three days and recommended that it not be graded because it did not have a subject unit.
Income tax proposal maintains hike for those who earn more than $ 2,000 a month, higher charge will be applied on $ 5,000
This time, according to Pachakutik’s delegate to the CAL, Darwin Pereira, there would be no major objections to his qualification, where there could be drawbacks is in the commission that should be processed, since the Democratic Left and the ruling party hope that the proposal of the Executive is referred to the Economic Development Commission, while the legislative sector of Unión por la Esperanza (UNES) and Pachakutik consider that because it is a tax matter it is up to the Economic and Tax Regime Commission to study the document.
Pereira, in a first review of the Executive’s proposal, warns that some changes should be made, such as the revision to the contribution table so as not to affect the middle class and that the table of tax deductions in the health sector would also have to be raised. Likewise, the representative of Pachakutik comments that it is questionable that the return of capital to the country is carried out under reserve, because that will allow the resources resulting from corruption or drug trafficking to enter the country without control and less justifying their origin.
The position of the Democratic Left also goes along the same lines as Pachakutik of reviewing the contribution table, because according to the coordinator of the bench, Alejandro Jaramillo, maintaining the tax base of $ 2,000 will directly affect the indebted middle class, which has They have to face their obligations, therefore, they propose that this base should rise to $ 3,500.
This political sector agrees that whoever earns more pays more, but questions the elimination of inheritance tax and the removal of GADs, as withholding agents. Jaramillo highlights that the government’s proposal includes the elimination of VAT on biosafety products.
These two political sectors are key for the Government to reach 70 votes to approve the draft Law for Economic Development.
The President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso, in an interview with EFE, said that for the moment he will leave the idea of a cross-death in the book of the Constitution and that he will opt for the path of dialogue to move forward with the bills. All this because in the face of an announced legislative blockade, the option was to dissolve Parliament .
“I no longer want to enter into discussions whether the return (of the bill) is constitutional or not. We have spoken with the president of the National Assembly (Guadalupe Llori), with the bloc of the Democratic Left, with the Pachakutik bloc partially, and we have reached an understanding to send three different laws with the character of urgent “, stressed the president. .
Lasso considers that the issue of crossed death has been overcome and that he now aspires to a democratic dialogue, where he understands that they are different visions and it must be considered that some aspects will be reformed in the Assembly and an exercise of absolute tolerance and openness.
For the Unión por la Esperanza banking sector, according to its coordinator, Paola Cabezas, the Executive recognizes the error of unconstitutionality that it committed by submitting three projects in one when it came to the Law of Creation of Opportunities.
What questions this sector is the position of the Executive to maintain the same tax base for natural persons, and it is concerned that taxes are not charged on the return of capital to the country, because according to Cabezas said, the first beneficiary would be the President of the Republic , Guillermo Lasso, and there would be a conflict of interest. He announced that there will be a more in-depth analysis of this proposal.
Meanwhile, the Social Christian Party (PSC) began to analyze the content of the Executive’s proposal before issuing an official statement. (I).
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