Now you can pay your taxes through Yape

In recent years, electronic channels have been used to pay tax and customs obligations quickly, easily and safely. Given this, the National Superintendency of Customs and Tax Administration (SUNAT) has included as a paid service the electronic wallet Yape.

Thus, while as of December 2021, 67.9% of total tax payments were made using virtual means, this indicator stood at 70.8% at the end of December last year, while between January and February In 2023, the virtualization of payments remains above 70%, on average, with a growing trend versus those made in the network of banking agencies that are face-to-face.

As is known, SUNAT has developed a platform that allows the payment of taxes from its portal, so that natural persons and companies can pay their obligations through four means: debit to a bank account, charge to deduction account, charge to credit or debit card or with the SUNAT Payment Number (NPS), a modality that allows paying taxes by presenting a code.

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It is worth mentioning that the virtual payment modality most frequently used by taxpayers is the deduction account charge, which represents 40% of the operations; It is followed by credit card payments with 20% and to a lesser extent by debit payments in bank accounts and mobile banking with 13% and 9%, respectively, among others.

New payment option

Within the framework of facilitating compliance with tax obligations, since the middle of this month the Yape virtual wallet has been included as a payment service. This service will simplify the payment process, saving time for users and SUNAT’s own processes.

Due to the current characteristics of this service (only maximum payments of 500 soles are allowed), the benefited users would be taxpayers who are responsible for paying low amounts of taxes. However, it is estimated that its use will be massive.

For example, Yape could be used for real estate rental tax payments (through Form 1683), subjects of the New RUS (Form 1611) and Various Payment Form 1662 (including fines, declared debts, payment orders determination resolutions, among others).

Additionally, taking into account the upcoming 2022 Income Campaign, Natural Persons could consider Yape as an additional means for payment of the regularization to be determined, once the Declaration is submitted through Virtual Form 709.