They represent a competition for local merchants who are subject to other rules of the game
As we have been informed, purchases abroad by people residing in the national territory have increased exponentially in the last year.
It is an increasingly used system therefore represents a competition for local merchants that are subject to other rules of the game.
“In an apartment with lack of work, sales fall, but also because the world is changing in the commercial aspect. Today social networks have been influencing a lot, with an increase in purchases abroad quite importantly” commented Andrés Martínez to The daily professional.
What was a problem for certain points of the country has become generalized, motivating even orders by the business chambers of a regulation in this regard. “It becomes a problem” The president of the Commercial and Industrial Center of Cerro Largo synthesized.
“When money is spent abroad, then it will not circulate in the middle. That is going to other countries, it is not a purchase in local trade that as we all know are employment generators because without a doubt there are more workers than companies. Purchases abroad generate a problem to companies and employees. It is something very transcendent in terms of economic” He warned. “In the month of February, there is no important date as there is in December, 15 million dollars went abroad” revealed.
Making a projection at 12 months, this would represent something like about 180 million dollars. “It is a sum that goes in purchases online. It is very significant. All that money goes from the local market and is not part of the round that it should fulfill. It is really money really” insisted.
“It is well a modality that has its regulation in terms of amount, there is no tax on that while local trade must pay taxes to function” Andrés Martínez recalled.
“Customs controls are almost impossible in these types of cases because it is not that you can bring what you want. It is so much the amount that customs officials are impossible to control all packages. There are also such problems” said the president of the Shopping Center of Cerro Largo.
