The doctorsclinics and all the Suppliers of services of health are obliged to give voucher fiscal like any establishment commercial or freelance professional.
“Anyone who has one activity commercialbusiness and professional services is obliged to issue tax receipts,” explained Luis Valdez Veras to Free Newspaper.
The head of the General Directorate of Internal Revenue (DGII) made it clear that obligation of the facultative and private hospitals in response to questions from this newspaper.
In it sector health The private sector operates, with few exceptions, a suspicious system of cash collections or bank transfers, often without a simple receipt, much less a voucher that allows tax verification.
In many cases, they don’t even accept Payments with card credit, which lends itself to evasion fiscal.
“That is a practice that is becoming increasingly common in our country. If you want the patient to pay the difference, you must at least declare it; at least give him a voucher fiscalpay tax on that,” Edgar Barnichta said recently, lawyer specialist in law taxto Free Newspaper.
He lawyer Barnichta understands that “it is a very real and abhorrent practice that many doctors charge their patients ‘extra’ fees to those paid by insurance, and in cash, without giving them receipts and without them Payments are made by check or bank transfer so that the tax authorities do not detect them.”
He points out that these “do not declare this money as extra profit and do not pay a penny of tax,” which is why he considers it a moral problem, but at the same time it is legal, because they have the duty to do so. He insists that “the tax office has the right to do so.” obligation to follow up on it.”
Business roundtable
Valdez spoke about the situation in the framework of the celebration of the second “Electronic Billing Business Round” organized by the DGII With Suppliers of services authorizedwith the aim that taxpayers can learn about the various initiatives to benefit from this type of billingestablished by Law 32-23.
The director of the DGII expressed that the billing electronics It is one of the many actions of control and facilitation that your administration has been carrying out.
“We firmly believe in the power of collaboration and synergy to drive progress and mutual growth, which is why we trust in the Suppliers of services already authorized by this General Directorate of Internal Revenue to popularize the billing electronics“, said Valdez Veras.
Additionally, the director said that the event is a platform to explore the latest trends and advances technological in the field of billing electronics and an opportunity to learn from experiences shared by experts and industry leaders.
