By tax association
In Lime There are several mayors that generate headaches every day. They extort, threaten, block and mistreat entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs under the excuse that they care about their neighbors or an alleged purpose of making their districts “better.” Nothing more false, on the one hand, but nothing more true, on the other. False your concern. True the fact that mayors in Lima and anywhere in Peru are protected to do what they want thanks to a constitutional principle that gives them administrative autonomy, and that must be urgently reviewed. According to Indecopi, more than 75% of the bureaucratic barriers it eliminates are generated by the municipalities.
The problem? According to the Constitution and the Organic Law of Municipalities, municipalities have autonomy to manage their own issues in areas such as economy, politics and administration within their territory. This allows them to make decisions without external interference, but always – also according to the Constitution – must respect the national legal system. Its norms cannot face the law. Thus, in theory, municipal autonomy should be a great benefit to citizens, because mayors should compete to attract investment, promote economy, development and security creating their own standards. But this rarely occurs.
Some municipalities badly interpret their autonomy and create bureaucratic barriers that complicate life to citizens or use their power to take advantage of it. Several, exceeding this autonomy or exercising it erroneously, create rules that make it more difficult to open business or comply with what is necessary to operate them in peace and stable. Operating licenses, in this regard, are a headache, because municipalities do not adopt a uniform criterion of equal and standardized requirements. The famous tupas (unique text of administrative procedures) are not updated, have empty or are not available for citizens.
If municipalities abuse their power, what can citizens do? They have legal tools to defend themselves. One option is to file complaints against Indecopi for bureaucratic barriers, or even take officials before a judge to comply with the law. But, although these actions exist, many times local authorities resist, do not obey and take to apply solutions.
Thus, as always, the best option is social sanction: entrepreneurs or businessmen cannot be accomplices. If they are extorted, they must report it. If they ask for a coima, they must report it. If municipal officials threaten them, they must report it. And all in social networks, in press, in mass media. It is very simple, do they want to be part of a corrupt system or do they want to be part of the solution? I think the answer is evident.
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