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El Salvador Tax Reform Urgent, Says Deputy
SAN SALVADOR - Public finance
precariousness and struggle against poverty
in El Salvador reveal the "urgent need" for
a tax reform in the country, a national
deputy said on Monday.
According to legislator Norma Guevara de
Ramirios, it is necessary to establish
selective taxes on activities that currently
are not subject to them in this Central
American nation.
"We also need to collect already decreed
taxes well, as through decades we have lived
in a reality of prevailing protectionist
behaviour to benefit certain elite economic
groups," she recalled.
We need to put an end to favouritism, as it
erodes the State fiscal capacity when it
comes to use resources to cater for the
needs of the majorities.
If tax reforms currently under discussion
are finally approved, this would improve the
State capacity to respond to its obligations
in social protection and investments,
leading to a fall in the inherited fiscal
deficit, said Guevara.ters are doing studies
in Cuba as part of collaboration between the
two nations. |
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