This was confirmed by the president of Congress, who said that the discussion is complex.
Elliptical Hall of the Congress of the Republic.
Although it was expected that the presentation of the tax reform to start its discussion in the first debate in the Economic Commissions of Congress, The negotiation table between the speakers of the initiative and the Government was adjourned due to lack of agreement.
This was confirmed by the president of the Senate, Efraín Cepeda, who assured that congressmen are not willing to approve the imposition of more taxes on Colombians.
“Look how complex the issue is that the speakers have not been able to agree after many sessionsand today, when it was final, there was no agreement, there is no presentation,” Indian.
“We hope there will be a presentation tomorrow, we will announce tomorrow and we will vote on Wednesday and therein lies the complexity of the issue, because the speakers themselves do not agree on an issue as complex as imposing more taxes on Colombians,” he added.
He said that Although the tax reform will affect microentrepreneurs, the problem does not lie in whether or not the project is approved, but in the lack of execution by the national government, which also made happy accounts with the collection.
“There are complex issues such as telling 130,000 microentrepreneurs who took advantage of the simple regime, that they are no longer going, that the simple regime ended when they formalized themselves. Issues as difficult as the wealth tax on unproductive assets that are not defined and are left to the discretion of DIAN officials,” he said.
“The complexity is not in the 6 or 7 billion that could be approved for a tax reform, but in the 97 that they do not execute and the 28 and a half that they have to remember due to lack of tax collection and having done happy accounts,” he indicated.
Regarding the accusations that have been made against the Minister of Finance, Ricardo Bonilla, due to the UNGRD scandal, Cepeda assured that he respects the investigations that are being carried out in this process.
“There are two different tracks, one issue is the actions of Congress that will continue working rain, shine or lightning and the other is the issues of the Colombian justice, which is an independent branch that will make its own decisions,” he said.
The president of Congress reiterated that they are an “independent branch of public power, we are not notaries of government projects and it is up to us to continue working for the well-being of Colombians.”
