In it 2025the State collections through the General Directorate of Internal Taxes (DGII) reached 913,821.7 million pesos, an increase of 8.0% compared to the 846,459.2 million taxed in 2024.
The greatest growth is observed in the tax in the miningwhich amounted to 40,068.6 million of pesos in the last twelve months, 27,132.2 million more than the 12,936.3 million it reached in 2024, for an expansion of 209.7% that is explained by the increase in gold costs and the efficiency of the sector’s production costs, according to the collecting entity.
The income tax of mining companies represented 41.3% of the total collected from this sector, reaching up to 16,548.3 million pesos, for an increase of 77.9%. The second component with the largest contribution was the net smelting return tax (RNF), with 13,503.8 million pesos, for 33.7% of the total retained.
This is followed by the tax on mineral profits (PUN), which represented 25% of the collection throughout last year, with 10,035.0 million of pesos.
In December alone, collections from the DGII totalized 81,005.5 million of pesos, a period in which 9,756.6 million taxes were collected from the mining sector, 51 times more than the 188.4 million pesos retained in December 2024.
If these contributions were excluded, only 71,248.9 million of pesos, 1,965 million below the expected estimate for that month according to the State’s reformulated budget, of 73,213.9 million pesos, a sample of the weighting of that sector in the final results of that period, including total collections, which would also have remained below the 904,798.5 million pesos set as a goal and which were exceeded by 101%.
He ITBIS grows 4.1%
In nominal terms, the tax on the transfer of industrialized goods and services (ITBIS) concentrated the greatest weight of the collection with 216,389.5 million of pesos, 23.6% of the total retained. This represented a growth of 4.1% compared to the 207,946.3 million in 2024.
According to the report of the DGIIthe total operations and taxed presented an increase of 10.7% and 5.7%, respectively, with greater dynamism in economic activities such as commerce (4.4%), hotels, bars and restaurants (7.7%) and vehicle trade (5.8%).
In December alone, the collection of ITBIS was from 19,749.5 million of pesos, higher than the 17,539 million taxed in 2024 by 12.6%.
ISR performance
Meanwhile, the personal income tax (ISR) was at 133,206.8 million of pesos, 16,705.7 million above the 116,501.1 million of last year, for a growth of 14.3%.
In this tax, the component with the greatest weight in the ISR withheld from the workers’ salaries, which totaled 105,036.1 million of pesos throughout the year – with 9,283.8 million pesos collected in December alone -, for an increase of 14.9% when compared to what was collected in 2024, of 91,423.7 million pesos.
This increase is due to the fact that the amount of taxed employees grew by 18.2% which, in turn, pushed up the amounts withheld by 16.2%.
For its part, the corporate income tax and the asset tax added 198,190.4 million of pesos last year, 3.4% more than the 191,606.2 million in 2024.
In addition to these taxes – which have a significant weight in state collections – other taxes showed positive variations that also influenced the final result.
This is the case of the tax on the transfer of real estate, which closed 2025 with 16,346 million pesos in total, rising 15.9% more than the 14,105.2 million pesos collected last year. Likewise, the tax on real estate grew 12.8%, going from 5,348.6 million pesos in 2024 to 6,032.1 million in 2025. The amount taxed on income abroad – which includes payments and interests – accumulated 27,892.6 million as of last December, 10.7% more than the 25,191.3 million in 2024, while withholdings for fines, surcharges, interests and sanctions reached 9,890.8 million, an increase of 28.7% if compares it with the 7,684 million pesos in 2024.
Customs collected 3.69% more last year
Although Internal Taxes concentrated 75.4% of the income collected by the Dominican State last year, the customs They also had a relevant weight, contributing 21.8% of the total.
The collections of the General Directorate of Customs (DGA) were located in 264,089.7 million9,402.6 million above the 254,687.1 million in 2024, for an increase of 3.69%.
Despite being a positive amount, this was 16,533.7 million below the collection goal, estimated at 280,623.4 million of pesos, so the entity achieved compliance of 94.1%.
In a report, Customs explains that the goal was established under the assumption of a economic growth 4.75% for last year, however, the economy barely expanded 2.1% in the first eleven months of the year. 2025.
Added to this factor is that the domestic imports They fell 0.18%, with a growth of just 0.73% in oil imports.
Even so, Customs implemented strategies to make its resources more efficient and achieve administrative savings that allowed it to transfer up to 4,100 million additional pesos to the State, for a total of 268,189.7 million in contributions during last year.
If the withholdings of the National Treasury -which represented 2.8% of the total- State income amounted to 1 billion 211,970.9 million pesos in the 2025.
