On Monday, June 20, the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, received senators and deputies from the National Party at the residence of Suárez y Reyes with the task of outlining the content of the next Accountability and Budget Execution Balance .
In this framework, the president stated that the priorities are to allocate resources for science and technology linked to education, for public safety, and will correct the loss of real wages in the public sector.
He also referred to the possibility of modifying personal income tax. In this sense, he proposed to the legislators to raise the non-taxable minimum income tax, which currently and without deductions is 36,148 pesos per month. According to him, he proposed to loosen the belt to the lower middle class.
does not benefit
However, the Broad Front senator Mario Bergara said that raising the non-taxable income tax minimum “does not benefit the lower middle class.”
He explained that a family with two children pays income tax from income of almost 60,000 pesos per month, and a person without children from 45,000 pesos.
“To ease the burden on those most in need, the most appropriate thing is to lower VAT or strengthen social policies,” he proposed.
