By tax association
Peru will enter a new stage electoral Before we realize. A little over a year of the first round, we still do not know who official candidates are thanks to an electoral system that promotes five or six months campaigns where taxpayers cannot choose, weigh and clearly analyze candidates. Today we should already know who the five or six main candidates are and discard the 35 “small” candidates that will only make bulk.
However, what seems clear is that – according to various surveys and especially an person in charge of Peru21 – Peruvians will seek strong candidates, of hard hand, that propose “radical” solutions to serious problems such as crime, insecurity, corruption and the difficulty to do business and generate wealth.
In our region this “hard hand” has been represented by Javier Milei, Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele, and the news is giving the new American president, which culminates his first week in power in the midst of various controversies for his immigration policies.
Both Trump, and Milei and Bukele, coincide with something that is not yet analyzed in depth and that the Association of Taxpayers has been systematically positioning: the urgent need to deregulate the State, eliminate payroll, unwind the processes between the State and taxpayers and reduce loads and taxes in a concrete and clear way.
Donald Trump will bet on deregulation as a central axis of his government. He has created the government efficiency department, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, among other reasons, to eliminate bureaucracy and simplify processes to promote private investment.
Through this entity, Trump proposes to considerably reduce government spending to control the fiscal deficit and national debt. Its strategy includes transferring educational management to states and locations, cutting federal programs; In addition to freezing weapons projects, removing international troops under the “America first” strategy.
Trump, like Milei, has also offered significantly taxes in various sectors. All this to encourage investment, employment and savings generation. While their decisions are still uncertain in terms of tariff policies, it is clear that the US president will bet on strengthening national production and renegotiating some commercial agreements with other countries. This could bring negative consequences for its smallest commercial partners.
What will happen? Everything is yet to be seen, but the results of these policies in Argentina, under the government of Javier Milei, are already noticeable and positive. What should we do in Peru? In 2026 we must choose politicians, authorities, president, senators and deputies willing to reduce state bureaucracy, corruption, administrative spending on public entities, and definitely committed to reducing taxes, regulatory charges, abusive control of the State. This is what we must do.
In Peru, excessive bureaucracy is an obstacle to accessing formality, to start business, process permits, grow and generate wealth. If we do not begin the reform and reduction of the State since 2026, we will continue to be a country of mediocre growth, with a concentrated market in which only a handful of large companies can cross the bureaucratic tangle, while millions of small and medium entrepreneurs remain dwarf Thanks to a state that only seeks to collect, control and maintain its intact power. And this is unsustainable. We will be left behind in the Global Development race.
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