Senator Patrick Kemper, head of the Industry Commission, stated that the study of the National Expenditure Budget (PGN) for 2023 that the Ministry of Finance will present to Congress on September 1, must be a very cautious budget because It will be an election year.
His criterion is not to increase taxes to get out of the economic crisis and to pay attention to the control of rigid expenses. He announced that he will be in charge of scrutinizing the details of the PGN to, among other things, detect if the rigid expenses of the budgets of the institutions include the creation of positions for political operators disguised as salaries for officials.
«The State has a fairly high deficit and we cannot let it continue to increase next year, especially with superfluous expenses and rigid expenses to pay political operators in the middle of an election year. We must be cautious and we are going to control that part », he maintained.
He added that all superfluous expenses must be eliminated, be it VIP insurance, fuel quotas, catering services, paper purchases, etc. He also said that PGN 2023 must be in accordance with our reality and economic situation after the pandemic.
“We need an austere, realistic, prudent budget, whose goal is to lift us out of this crisis, which does not increase taxes for those who create jobs, which establishes incentives, which increases control against tax evasion, and ultimately improves quality of spending, focused mainly on investments, on improving processes with technology, eliminating superfluous expenses and rigid expenses, which will be one of the issues that we will be controlling because we are in an election year,” he concluded.
