For the second consecutive day, the ID suspended the dialogue with the president on the tax reform.
The qualification of the urgent economic project on tax reform would not have disadvantages in its qualification by the Legislative Administration Council (CAL), anticipated the spokesmen of the legislative blocks of Pachakutik, Democratic Left and the National Agreement Bank, who received and analyzed the text draft of the new reform of the Executive.
The draft tax reform proposal was analyzed by the economic teams of these banks and they made some observations before this project officially enters the National Assembly, mainly with regard to the monthly contribution of citizens who earn more than $ 2,000.
Pachakutik and the ID adjust draft of the tax reform that the Government will send
The Union for Hope bloc and the Christian Social Party did not run the same fate, which clarified that the Executive never sent a text related to what the tax reform will be. “What sense does it make that they give two benches the draft project and not all those that exist in the Assembly, because that does not speak well of the will for dialogue that the Government claims to have,” said legislator Pabel Muñoz (UNES).
Meanwhile, the Democratic Left asked for a few more days for the meeting with the President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso, to work more on the observations on the urgent economic project, but also to raise other issues and make the most of this dialogue, such as the the issue of fuels and the issuance of Decree 231, on the suspension of the increase in fuels, said the coordinator of the bench, Alejandro Jaramillo.
The ID, according to Jaramillo, of the tax proposal highlights the elimination of VAT on certain hygiene products, as well as the special contribution on assets equal to or greater than one million dollars. But they make observations regarding the setting of the tax base for citizens who earn more than $ 2,000 per month: that this figure should be above $ 3,500 so as not to affect the middle class.
Darwin Pereira, of the Pachakutik movement and delegate of that sector to the administrative body of the Assembly, stressed that as the draft project is proposed there would be no problems in the qualification by the Administrative Council, since what the Executive is doing is modifying and separating in three blocks its initial proposal, known as the Law of Creation of Opportunities.
If now only the tax proposal comes in the project announced by the Executive, “of course, it will have our approval in the CAL and it would go to the corresponding commission to be debated.”
What worries most of these reforms, Pereira added, is the issue of capital repatriation, since it is established that capital can be brought, but under secret declarations, where Ecuadorians will never be able to know the origin and the tax to pay. He also indicated that the special contribution of the people must be modified from the initial proposal of the Government, so that the middle class is not the most punished.
Francisco Jiménez, from the National Agreement Bank (BAN), specified that sending the draft project to the allied blocs, such as Pachakutik and the Democratic Left, allows a smoother path for when the proposal officially enters the Legislature.
What is needed is that the CAL gives way to the processing of the project before the corresponding legislative commission, since its observations regarding the uniqueness of the matter have been collected. He announced that there is nothing certain about the passage of the project in the Assembly, but that they are confident that the text that will be sent to the Assembly will contribute to solving Ecuador’s problems.
Jiménez clarified that they do not close with the UNES and PSC blocks for the preliminary analysis of the bill, because in the next few hours they will have the respective information.
The first vice president of the Legislature, Virgilio Saquicela, assured that the CAL would not have problems for the qualification of the urgent project that is on its way to the Assembly, taking into account that the Government has tuned public opinion and Parliament’s own political opinion.
He specified that the proposal is sectorized what is tax reform and various legal bodies, but that all have to do with the economy and taxes. With this, “there is no longer the pretext of unity of matter, since there is the common thread and the bond of unity of matter.”
Saquicela indicated that the project would go to the Economic Regime Commission, which would have ten days to issue a report for the first debate, and later, the report for the second debate.
That even that same commission would be in charge of studying and approving the budget proforma for the year 2022, because it is directly related to the tax reform, the text of which would also enter this weekend. (I)
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