During the debate in plenary of House of Representatives on Interior shock to face the crisis in the Catatumbo (Norte de Santander), The Vice Minister Technical of Finance, Juanita Villaveces Niño, confirmed the Three tax measures that will be used to finance the decree.
(See: Government issues Decree of Internal Shock for the crisis in the Catatumbo).
The official made it clear that VAT to the games of luck and random will join a “Temporary tax“Xportations of oil and coal, and a bell tax.
Thus, the measures of the government with which 1,063 billion pesos would be collected:
– VAT to the games of luck and chance, which would raise 519,000 million pesos.
– Special contribution of exports to extraction of crude oil and coal of 1%, that would raise 214,000 million pesos.
– 1%bell tax, which would raise around 330,000 million pesos.
“These measures are for the 90 days of the state of internal shock“The Vice Minister Villaveces added.
(See: Interior shock: the ABC of the new measure adopted by the Petro government).
Debate in the plenary of the Chamber.
César Melgarejo / Portfolio
The arguments for the three tax measures
Vice Minister Villaveces acknowledged that “It is clear that it is necessary to have additional resources to be able to respond to the internal shock and the situation in the Catatumbo“And he explained that”It is necessary to make clear that these resources were not contemplated in the General Budget of the Nation of 2025, then it is necessary to determine new sources of financing to obtain the required financing“
(See: Where will the internal commotion decreed by the national government apply?).
Insisted that with the resources that are in the General Budget of the Nation “It is not possible to answer” and He reminded the representatives that the country is in a complex fiscal situation.
“The National Government decreed the budget postponement, which further limits the powers that are for the attention of the Catatumbo. In this sense, tax measures were established that seek the collection of a little more than one billion pesos for 90 days for what is required at this time“He said.
And he stressed that The resources that are collected with these tax measures will be used solely and exclusively for the attention of the internal shock.
Plenary of the House of Representatives.
César Melgarejo / Portfolio
The details of the Decree of Inner Communction
On Monday, January 20, President Gustavo Petro announced that he would decree the internal commotion to address the social crisis in the Catatumbo, by The conflicts between the ELN and the dissidents of the FARC.
(See: What faculties will stop having Petro when the state of economic emergency is ruled out).
Four days later, on Friday 24, the official decree of this measure was published, a decision that was based on the faculties that it gives The 1991 Constitution to the President of the Republic To attend emergencies, either due to natural disasters, security crisis or economic recession, among other causes, and that can be applied in a specific territory or throughout the national geography.
In the specific case of the shock decreed by Petro, its application will be for 90 days from the 24th and only for the Catatumbo region.
Decree 0062 of January 24, 2025, in addition, seeks to respond to The magnitude of the challenge derived from the restoration of public order in the Catatumbo and states that it is necessary to request the cooperation of international organizations and allied governments, for the financing of humanitarian and stabilization programs, which implies carrying out the corresponding budget adjustments.
In the Catatumbo region they are present The Northern War Front of the National Liberation Army (ELN), the Waste -Organized Armed Groups (Gaor) Second Marquetalia and Central General Staff, and the Organized Criminal Group (GDO) known as ‘Los Pelusos’. The Gulf clan, meanwhile, tries to enter it.
(See: The declaration of internal shock in the country would repeat errors of the past).
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