As we announced yesterday, the Minister of Social Development, Martín Lema, presented in the Plenary Session of the Congress of Mayors the initiatives for a personalized VAT and a university city that develops the portfolio, in order to promote articulations with the departments.
The hierarch invited the communes to add digital validation posts in local offices to facilitate the communities’ access to these measures.
Also in attendance were the Undersecretary of Social Development, Andrea Brugman; the national director of Data Transfers and Analysis, Antonio Manzi; the head of the National Youth Institute (INJU), Felipe Paullier, and the president of the Congress of Mayors, Guillermo López, as well as leaders and representatives of all the departments of Uruguay.
After his speech, Lema said that the first stage of the program for the Jorge Larrañaga university campus will begin this second semester and will grant 180 subsidized accommodation places for young students, between 18 and 24 years old, from the interior of the country. “The back and forth with the mayors is very important,” he said in this regard. He added that there are departments with important educational proposals to consider as an option for the second stage.
On the other hand, regarding the personalized value added tax (VAT), whose process begins on August 1, the Ministry of Social Development (Mides) will coordinate with the departmental governments, in order to expand the number of service centers for digital validation.
He also assured that this measure will cover the beneficiaries of family allowances of the Equity Plan who collect their monthly benefit through the Tuapp platform. In this way, they will have access to a total VAT discount on purchases of goods and services when paying by that means. He added that the bonus will cover 203,000 households, made up of a total of 837,000 Uruguayans.
