The social activist and entrepreneurDeri Ortiz, He stated that if the intention to tax digital services materializes, as proposed in the draft regulation that regulates the process for the application of the ITBIS to these platforms, these resources must be used to promote the research and development of businesses of this type in the country.
Ortíz explained that “if it is true that taxes tend to discourage investment, entrepreneurship and the consumption or use of the service when they are transferred by companies to the end user, it is no less true that they are necessary for the economy of a country. , but unfair if these do not have a development destination ».
In this sense, he added that “taxes collected in one sector or industry of the economy cannot be dispersed in others, but must serve to promote their ecosystem of origin, with research and development in new business models that allow entrepreneurship and that raise the sustainability expectations of those who work and invest there.
However, Deri Ortiz stated that “the solutions are in the mill”, for which she warned the government about the risk of applying this measure if it is not projected beforehand how this can stop the presence in the country of new companies that serve for the transfer of technology and knowledge to the local entrepreneur.
«Taxes must be transparent in investment, the best example of compulsive charges without having a clear destination are those added to fuels, which we all know we pay for, but we do not know where they go, what is done with them, but every day prices are higher and we know that the tax burden of these is enormous ».
