Due to the crisis that is being registered in Ecuador due to the different crime rates that are reported, the mayor of the Aguas Verdes district (Tumbes), César Chapoñán Díaz, reported that commercial activity has decreased by 90%, as consumers fear reaching the border city due to the high crime rate. According to the municipal […]
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Gonzalo García Núñez, former director of the BCR and politician, dies
Gonzalo García Núñeza prominent professional and politician in the country, died yesterday at the age of 76, leaving an important legacy to Peru. He was the first director of the Central Reserve Bank (BCR) at a time when Peru regained democracy. On September 20, 2001 he was appointed to the position by the Congress of […]
Peru will have 16 national holidays in 2024
In the last three years, four new national holidays have been approved by the Congress of the Republic, of which two were enacted in 2023. Given this, Peru will have 16 holidays in 2024, added to the 30 days of vacations that formal workers have, which makes a total of 46 days off with the […]
Up to 5 years in prison for illegally building fishing vessels
Now the illegal construction or modification of fishing vessels will have a prison sentence of three to five years for being considered the first link in illegal fishing, as approved by the Congress of the republic by majority in one of the last plenary sessions of the year. The autograph that groups four bills (3413/2022-CR, […]
New AFP withdrawal is not a priority for the Economy Commission
Yesterday at the extraordinary session of the Economy Commission of Congress, once again the debate to authorize a seventh withdrawal from private pension funds was suspended. As the fourth point on the agenda, the presentation of the opinion proposed by this working group, led by César Revilla (Popular Force), to modernize the Peruvian system. This […]
Textile, clothing and agro-export companies would have tax incentives until 2028
With 86 votes in favor, 10 against and 14 abstentions, the Plenary Session of the Congress of the Republic approved the replacement text that promotes competitiveness and employment in the textile, clothing, agricultural and irrigation, agro-export and agro-industrial sectors and promotes their economic reactivation . This initiative has the Executive Branch as one of its […]
Congressional budget for 2024 will rise to S/1,084 million in the midst of a recession
The list of resources for legislators’ expenses was raised by S/204 million, in accordance with the text approved in the Plenary. Join the La República WhatsApp channel Price of the dollar today in Peru: what is the exchange rate for this Thursday, November 30? Bonus S/600: MEF authorizes transfer of S/346.3 million for public sector […]
MEF guarantees the return of contributions to the defunct Fonavi
Despite the obstacles of the Government of Dina Boluarte, Congress once again approved a bill that establishes the return of money to citizens who contributed to the failed National Housing Fund (Fonavi), with the charge of receiving an additional amount to compensate all your contributions. The Executive has until mid-November to enact it; However, the […]
Refund to 1.2 million Fonavistas begins in December
After the observations of the Executive Branch, Congress approved by insistence the opinion that modifies the Law of Refund of Money of the National Housing Fund (Law No. 29625) so that the Fonavi Ad Hoc Commission speeds up the remuneration process. It is worth mentioning that this is a partial refund charged to a subsequent […]
Half a million members preferred to withdraw 95.5% of their AFP rather than a pension
Around half a million AFP members chose to withdraw 95.5% of their pension savings instead of collecting a monthly pension in the Private Pension System (SPP), according to information from the Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and AFP ( SBS) with a cut-off date of July 31. In this way, the AFP They had to disburse […]