Senators will seek to eliminate articles from the tax reform totaling more than 26 billion pesos.
The economic commissions of the Congress of the Republic are planned With the same amount presented by the national government of about 557 billion pesosafter last week the breakdown of the quorum avoid that it could be voted.
The law establishes thatThe maximum term for the voting of the amount is “before September 15” of each yearso in the discretion of several legislators, it expired this Sunday, September 14 at midnight, so there is no more time to study an eventual reduction.
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Getting to keep the amount in 557 billion was a small victory of the government in CongressHowever, the majorities are not guaranteed so that the initiative can be approved as a whole and as presented by the Ministry of Finance.
Although last week it was learned that President Gustavo Petro would have given up the other year’s budget, in the third and fourth commissions of the Senate, warn that it is still under definance And that is why the opposition will insist on giving the debate and eliminating or modifying several of the articles so that there is a reduction of at least 26.3 billion pesos, which is what the tax reform raises.
Senator Ciro Ramírez said “The government bank broke the quorum so that the amount of the budget was not discussed. The discussion remains to the date established in the Organic Law of the Budget, in which the text of the 2026 Budget Law must be approved in the first debate ”.
“We will continue this week with the discussion of the articles of the Law of the General Budget of the Nation, where We will eliminate several of the articles of the regulatory provisions in which the Government wants to pass without the approval of the Congress several credits, Redistribute budgets and also redistribute future validity, which are commitments in the contracts signed by the Colombian State, ”he said.
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One of the biggest concerns that parliamentarians have are the articles that give special powers to the President of the Republic For various topics such as, for example, reprogramming the future validity of the transport sector, powers to deliver subsidies, to authorize advances in the payment of debt, among others.
Economic commissions will now have the deadline before September 25 to give total approval to the 2026 budget in the first debate. If this does not happen, the president could issue it by decree, as happened last year for this 2025.
Source: Integrated information system
