Guatemala Denounces Tax Evasion
More than 400 million dollars a year are left to be collected by Guatemala because of enterprises which take advantage of the maquila law to evade taxes, civil society organizations said Monday.

Analysts of the International Center for Human Rights Investigations let known a list of national and foreign enterprises with privileges and fiscal exemptions.

The law was decreed at the end of the 80´s under the pretext to attract foreign investment.

A hundred six enterprises of a total of 645 now inscribed, work on the maquila business and the rest are companies which presence is not justified.

Among foreign entities, there are Kellogs, Mahler, La Mariposa, where beer Brahva is produced, Colgate-Palmolive and mining company Montana.

Civil society organizations demanded to revise the list and make a depuration.