The National Assembly of Regional Governments (ANGR) announced its support for the tax reform proposed by the Government and asked the Congress of the republic your immediate approval.
Through a statement, he supported the request for delegation of powers for the Executive to legislate on tax matters “For being in line with the proposals made” by the ANGR in the four Decentralization Summits.
As detailed, this includes a “Fair fiscal and tax policy” that allows to have predictable and sufficient income to finance public services, reactivate the economy of the regions and achieve “Competitive territories”.
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“We welcome that the proposed tax reforms include all the tax and fiscal problems that affect the national territory”, he detailed when mentioning, among others, the optimization and simplification of tax procedures to reduce non-compliance and tax benefits.
The ANGR He also highlighted other proposals of the Executive, such as the promotion of private investment by modifying the legal framework that regulates the mechanism of works for taxes, as well as the simplification of evaluation procedures, approval of licenses, permits and sectoral authorizations.
“The regional governments of Peru call on the MEF and the Congressional Economic Commission to incorporate aspects of fiscal decentralization in the project for the delegation of powers to legislate on tax matters, referring to establishing autonomy in the use of Foncor (Compensation Fund Regional) and that a percentage of personal income tax with surcharges of 1% to 3% be direct income from regional governments (proposal made by the World Bank, 2017) “, he sentenced.
It should be noted that the Executive power submitted a request to the Congress of the republic to legislate on tax matters, whose approval period expires on December 15.
According to him Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), the legislative proposals on tax matters presented by the Executive have the goal of expanding the tax base from two million to 2.5 million taxpayers with the ex officio RUC.
