The Directorate of National Taxes and Customs (Dian) and the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane), signed an inter-institutional cooperation agreement for the delivery of tax information. This, in order to reinforce the statistical production of the Dane, through informative inputs that today are part of the information handled by the Dian.
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According to the entities, in this way the Dane will be able to “complement, contrast or enrich some of the variables collected through statistical operations”. As is the case with economic surveys carried out on sectors such as industry and commerce, among others, the national accounts, corresponding to the national and departmental GDP, the Economy Monitoring Indicator (ISE), among others, and and the satellite accounts.
In addition, thanks to the administrative records of the Dian, the Dane will be able to strengthen business demography indicators, as well as other information, thanks to the availability of secondary sources of information.
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Thus, enter the information to which the cooperation agreement will be given there is the Single Tax Registry (RUT); and to forms containing transfer pricing information for the taxable years 2017, 2018 and 2019, income and supplementary or income and equity declarations, withholding at the source and lien on financial movements, among other documents.
“The information object of this agreement will be used exclusively by DANE and may not be shared with the other entities that are part of the SEN National Statistical System or with third parties.”, indicated the general director of the Dian, Lisandro Junco.
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For his part, the director of Dane, Juan Daniel Oviedo, stressed that “the agreement will contribute the strengthening and modernization of the production of official statistics in the country of better quality and precision from the use of tax records and their integration with other records, censuses and surveys”.
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