This Wednesday, May 4, President Lacalle received a delegation from the PIT-CNT headed by its president, Marcelo Abdala, and made up of: José Lorenzo López (vice president), Elbia Pereira (general secretary), and Milton Castellanos (director of the Instituto Cuesta-Duarte).
After the meeting, Abdala told the press that the document delivered to the president contains a “rigorous diagnosis” of the situation, and ten proposals that are focused on “benefiting the most vulnerable sectors of society and not the members of the PIT-CNT, which is covered by collective agreements and agreements”.
“It’s a lot to throw a hand to the most vulnerable sectors,” said the union leader.
Among the ten proposals of the PIT-CNT, it is included: doubling the amount of Family Allowances and the Uruguay Social Card, increase in the national minimum wage, extension of the term of solidarity wages.
“We hope that the Executive will give us a rigorous response on the whole of the proposal”, said Abdala.
Tax adjustments
Likewise, the PIT-CNT plans to finance the proposals with a series of transitory tax adjustments.
In this sense, the union central proposes: increase the wealth tax by 10% for all those people and companies that paid wealth tax in previous years and did not have negative results, raise the IRAE (from 25% to 35%) for all those companies that have a net income greater than 1,000,000 dollars per year, that declare profits 25% higher than those declared the previous year, for the corresponding additional (greater than one million dollars); create a transitory tax on exporting companies whose destination prices have increased by at least 20% with respect to the previous year, for example meat, soybeans, rice, wheat, and impose a 2% tax on deposits of Uruguayans abroad.
“There is nothing wrong with the fact that, in a situation in which the famine rises, the share of wages and pensions in the national wealth is reduced, which affects small producers and merchants, making a temporary tax adjustment so that those who accumulate more wealth ‘ lend’ a hand to solve this situation”, remarked Abdala.
The union leader said that he could not say that he was satisfied or dissatisfied with the meeting with Lacalle Pou, but he stressed that he would like to wait, because just as the PIT-CNT made a formal proposal, in writing, he would expect a rigorous response from the government. He also indicated that some of the proposals “should walk”.
