Recently, the Minister of Transportation, Guillermo Reyes, announced that toll rates would not rise in 2023. This was shown through a draft decree signed by him and the Minister of Finance, José Antonio Ocampo.
(Read: The details of the decree that freezes toll prices during 2023).
However, this Monday, January 16, several users on social networks have reported that in different booths toll collection increases are taking place. However, the Government decree only applies to the pages that are administered by the National Institute of Roads (Invías) and the National Infrastructure Agency (ANI).
This implies that the departmental tolls, granted by one of the two entities or managed by private Yes, they will be able to make an increase in their price according to the inflation data of 2022, which was 13.12%, according to Dane.
According to the draft of the document, the measure not to increase the price of tolls will come into force as soon as the decree is made official and will go until December 31, 2023.
(Also: What are you exposed to if you don’t pay a toll: is it possible not to?).
For now, The signing of the decree has not been made official. Likewise, the Government is looking for alternatives with the private companies that administer the tolls of the concessions to those that are not covered by the measure.
Minister Reyes told EL TIEMPO that the resources that are not collected due to the non-increase in tolls, which would be approximately 500,000 million pesos, would be removed from the budget and They will be returned with what we recover with the valuation.
“We have the legal power to charge valuation for the roads, what happens is nobody has done it. Obviously, the valuation will not go to the less favored classes, these families will not be charged. This valuation will allow us to raise resources to finance works or to eliminate tolls. We hope that next year this theme will be ready to start charging. The higher the socioeconomic stratum and the size of the property, the more will be paid”, explained the head of the portfolio.
(Plus: Costs to consider if you’re going to be traveling by road.)
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