The Cuban American official said that it seeks to cut the financing of the regime “from the Miami-Dade County.”
Miami, United States. -The Miami-Dade County Tax Collection, the Cuban American Dariel Fernández, announced that he will apply measures to sanction businesses that participate illegally in the trade with the island’s regime, including the revocation or refusal of renewal of licenses and the eventual closure of establishments.
“As Miami-Dade County Tax Collector, I will not tolerate the bus A Facebook post This Monday.
He also added that “the law of Florida and the Miami-Dade County Code They are clear: those who collaborate with this regime will face all the consequences. “” Our county will never be a shelter for tyranny accomplices, “he added.
In the same publication, Fernández shared the image of a statement dated September 1 in which he maintains that any local authority, according to the State Statute 205.0532you can revoke or refuse to renew a local tax receipt when the company, or its parent company, be doing business with Cuba.
According to the document, the Miami-Dade / Administrative Order Code No. 3-13under the “section 4.02” of the Metropolitan County Letter and the Ordinance 93-45establishes the obligation of the collector to revoke or deny the renewal of occupational licenses to individuals or entities that do businesses with Cuba in violation of the federal law, once there is a written confirmation of the Office of Foreign Property Control (OFAC) that the entity lacks a valid federal license or that it was revoked or suspended without active appeal.
The official said that his office will send letters to the offenders in the coming weeks and that he will work with the Miami-Dade County Commission, municipal and state authorities to strengthen the laws. He also warned that the compliance unit will begin to close the businesses indicated “anywhere in the Miami-Dade County.”
Fernández claimed to know “who they are and where are” the businessmen who allegedly maintain business with the Cuban regime said and will take “all the necessary actions” to protect the community and “enforce the rule of law.”
In his statement he added that, as a Cuban emigrant, he will do “everything in [su] Power to enforce the laws of the United States of America, the State of Florida and the Miami-Dade County “, stop illegal practices and the financing of the regime” from the Miami-Dade County. “The text concludes with the phrase:” The moment is now. “
