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More expensive.
Each small box of cigarettes
will cost between ¢25 and ¢35 more, approximately.
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New
taxes
• Ministerio de Hacienda
settles mechanisms for collection
Translated from 03 January 2003
The Ministerio de Hacienda prepares
the collection of the new taxes.
The announcement by, Jorge Wálter
Bolaños, who said within the framework that its office settles
resolutions, regulations and mechanisms to collect the burdens, of
the fiscal emergency of the country.
He explained that the Dirección
General de Tributación will have to sharpen the procedures for the
collection of the taxes to commercial entities, to interest income
and to electronic bets and and casinos.
In some of these cases - that
Ministry, added the Minister, will have to write up and publish the
regulations, to order and to make the collection.
Although the collection of these
taxes will become after the the new regulations are published, its
collection is retroactive to the 1st of January.
Other cases
In other cases, as the creation of a
tax of ¢5 to all alcohol and the increase of the selective tax of
consumption in cigarettes, the collection will take place
immediately.
This, because although they do not
require a special resolution, the Ministero de Haciendo postponed
its application, because the fiscal Law was only December 27,
in the official newspaper the Newspaper, said Bolaños.
Also, next Monday will begin the
collection of the increase of a 100 percent in the tariffs of the
certifications that the Public Registry emits,
On the other hand, the collection of
an additional tariff of a 50 percent to luxury vehicles will become
effective as of November, when the collection of the marchamo begins
again corresponding to the 2004.
A year of emergency
The new taxes will be in place for
twelve months and which Ministerio de Hacienda tries to collect an
additional ¢65.000 million. Another ¢35.000 million would come
from the saving that will be generated by measures of efficiency and
rationing of public costs, also established in the fiscal Law.
With these resources, the Government
looks for to trim the fiscal deficit in the public sector, with a
unbalance of ¢331.200 million between income and expenses
that the last year.
Like part of the emergency measures,
at the end of this month the ministries and independent institutions
will have to give to Ministerio de Hacienda a plan to hold their
expenses in the 2003.
The directive of the Government
orders them not raise their costs to not more than 5.9 percent with
respect to that of 2002, to the end of saving another ¢120.000
million.
While, the Executive authority lists
the call to extraordinary sessions of the Congress (the 20 of
January) of three projects that comprise of the permanent solutions
to fiscal deficit, which will be studied by the members of the
special commission.
Among them, it emphasizes an
initiative that reforms the tax to interest. The idea is that the
same percentage of this tax is applied to all the income,
independent of the source of such.
The governmental goal is to lower the
fiscal deficit to a 3.1 percent of the gross internal product (PIB),
in this year. Now it represents a 5.5 percent.
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