The National Government recently announced new taxes in importance of importance. The taxes were explained through the official presidency site, which based this determination Within the framework of the state of internal shock in the Catatumbo region. What are these new increases about?
The decisions were made by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, that decreed three new taxes that will be in force until December 31, 2025.
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In accordance with the officially communication, Decree 0175 of February 14, 2025, established three new levies: 19 % of Lucky and Chance Tax online; 1 % to national sales and exports of oil and coal, and 1 % in the National Timbre Tax for transactions greater than $ 300 million.
“The resources obtained will be used exclusively to tend the expenses of the general budget of the nation necessary to conjure the causes of the disturbance that gave rise to the statement of state of internal shock in the Catatumbo region,” the government explained.
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The three new taxes decreed by the National Government
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1. Games of luck and chance
In the case of the Sales Tax on Luck and Azar online Games, the standard establishes that “It will be the money deposit, understood as the cash payment or the transfers of money or cryptoactive ones made by each user betting on the operatedr “of the respective platform.
It also establishes that the operators of games of luck and chance online will be responsible for this obligation, and will be caused when the betting “has its fiscal residence, domicile, permanent establishment, or the headquarters of its economic activity in the national territory .
In addition, Decree 0175 empowers Coljuegos to “block the channels, Internet pages and media that in any way serve the exploitation, operation, sale, payment, advertising or marketing” of games of luck and chance “unauthorized”.
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2. Impose or oil and coal
The norm also creates the ‘special tax for the catatumbo’ that “Traw for extraction in the national territory of hydrocarbons and carbó at the time of the first sale or export“. The rate will be 1 %” must correspond to the value of the tax of this Decree that protects the SOLVITY OF DEBLATION AUTHORIZATION “was officially explained ..
3. Impose a bell
The norm establishes the tax 1 % on the value of the bell tax for transactions that exceed $ 300 million and that are elevated to the public deed categoryand will apply for “public instruments and private documents that are granted or accepted in the country, or that are granted outside the country, but that are executed in the national territory or generate obligations in it, in which the Constitution, existence, modification or extinction of obligations, as well as its extension or assignment. “
