The taxes collected by the National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration (Sunat) in January they totaled S/13,387 million, 3.8% less than in the same month last year. This in a context of progressive affectation of economic activities.
IGV collection reached S/ 7,937 million (-6.8%), while at the Income Tax (IR) level, S/5,886 million (-0.7%) was obtained.
Regarding the IR, the Sunat specified that the result reflects the lower payments in the second category (-65.5%), fourth (-6.8%) and fifth (-4.3%), while the growth of payments by third category or companies was observed (+7.4%).
Tax collection Selective for Consumption (ISC) totaled S/817 million, 18.6% less than in January 2022.
The total amount for January, which includes the discount of tax refunds, would have been reduced compared to January 2022 due to a series of factors that included, according to Sunat, “the slowdown experienced by GDP growth and domestic demand for month of December, whose tax obligations are declared and paid mainly in January”, as well as lower imports and the adoption of measures such as the postponement of tax declarations and the extraordinary release of funds from deductions for micro and small companies (mypes ), in other aspects.
Among the latter would also include “the application of an IGV rate of 8% applicable to restaurants and mypes hotels.”
For the tax attorney Jorge Picón, The drop in collection goes hand in hand with the gradual affectation of economic activities since December, so some companies “may not have been having the (same) level of operations as in other months.”
“February is definitely going to be hit harder because in January you have the collection for December and in that month the blockades have not yet had a very significant impact. In February it will be worse because there are mines that have stopped their activities,” Picón said.
