With only five days left to finish the 2025to the Dominican state There were already 12,243 million additional pesos just from the income tax (ISR) to the salaried until Novembera collection that exceeded by 14.7% that registered in the first eleven months of 2024 and that aims to close the year with even greater results.
The withholdings of the ISR to the workers went from 83,509.1 million to 95,752.3 million pesos, according to the monthly collection report of the General Directorate of Internal Taxes (DGII).
This increase is explained in the creation of new jobs and in increases to the minimum wage of workers carried out during this 2025adjustments that pushed other salaries to rise in the ranks in the sections of the ISR.
The retention to the salaried represents 78.3% of the total collected under the concept of income tax to natural persons, which totaled 122,212 million pesos November this year, for a growth of 14.3% compared to January-November from last year.
“This positive behavior reflects progress in the conditions of the labor market and growth in wages,” says the DGII.
Growth of the first scale of retention
only in Novemberthe collections of ISR to the workers Formal payments amounted to 8,562.7 million pesos, 17.9% more than the 7,264.7 million pesos of November past.
During that period, the amount of salaried grew by 19.1% in the first scale of retentionto which 15% is applied to the excess of 416,220 pesos in annual income exempt from tax – equal to or greater than 34,685 pesos per month.
Consequently, the amounts withheld They increased by 20.6% on this scale, which was the one that registered the largest increase of all, influenced by the adjustment to the minimum wage in the non-sectorized private sector and in industries such as tourism and free zones.
In fact, the exempt amount of the ISR it decreased 2.4% in that month.
Meanwhile, there was 7.9% more workers in November who entered the second scale of retention –in which a base of 31,216 pesos per year is paid, plus 20% on the surplus of 624,329 pesos per year–. This generated withholdings that grew to a similar extent, 7.2% more than in November past.
To the scale 3 –in which a base of 79,776 pesos plus 25% of the surplus of 867,123 pesos is paid–, they spent 15.5% more than workers in Novemberso the retention It rose 15.8% more than in the same period in 2024, according to Internal Taxes.
