On the second day of the Annual Conference of Executives (CADE) 2024four leaders of Organized Civil Society (SCO) came together to discuss issues that affect us all, such as insecurity and the informality.
The luxury panel was made up of Alfonso Bustamante, Felipe James, Luis Villanueva and Jorge Zapata, presidents of Confiep, the National Society of Industries (SNI), the NGO Proética and Capeco, respectively.
Moderated by the head of political analysis of Apoyo, Camila Bozzothe debate focused especially on how crime makes us all spend more to be safe and on the seriousness of companies not formalizing.
CADE 2024: Citizen insecurity
Alfonso Bustamantepresident of the Confiepbegan by pointing out that “what is needed is not the responsibility of a single minister, but of the entire Government. There must be political will. The flagrante delicto centers only capture the ‘cell phone snatchers’ and not murderers, extortionists.”
Philip Jamespresident of the SNIrevealed that “there are 60,000 police officers missing (to reach the required average) because, in the last 10 years, the number has not increased. It is necessary to increase the budget and build more prisons, control borders and expel foreigners who commit crimes.”
Luis Villanuevapresident of Proethicsadded that “informality and citizen insecurity affect everyone and generate social conflicts (…) Since 2004, extortion began in civil construction works and, now, organized crime hides under the façade of pseudo-unions” .
However, Jorge Zapatapresident of Capecolamented that “we do not have a binding voice (that becomes law), but we do have successful experience, which led us to build this platform (CADE), which unites us and gives us a more powerful voice. Organized Civil Society has to get us ahead.”
CADE 2024: Informality in Peru
Alfonso Bustamante asked the Government to “lower the barriers to formalization, because we have increased them. Informality not only means tax evasion, but also lack of protection for people. The Confiep signed an agreement with the Ministry of the Interior to generate resources for the group that fights organized crime.”
In that line, Jorge Zapata pointed out that “one of the first promoters of informality in our country is the State, because it does not require companies to place their workers on payroll. This is in transportation, commerce, civil construction companies and in all sectors, because “Peru is the country of informality.”
Philip James delved into the issue, warning that “according to the latest report from the Sunatthere are 277 districts in which there are no formal workers from private companies. In our country, it takes us 18 days to formalize a company. We have to improve the paperwork (licenses and permits). “A lot of money and time lead to informality.”
“Everything can be perfected. For example, the formalizing combo is a good proposal (which was born in CADE 2023), because it promotes formalization with tax and labor incentives. This can be improved with work committees between officials and businessmen. This could be achieved by agreeing,” he concluded. Luis Villanueva.
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