General Directorate of Internal Taxes (DGII) and the legal consultancy of the Executive Power yesterday summoned the interested persons to give their observations and comments on the project that seeks to apply ITBIS to the digital services captured in the country and that are provided by foreign providers.
In a statement, the state entities indicated that the call will be open until Monday the 21st of the following month.
The text says that the digital services that would be subject to the collection of this tax are Amazon, Google, Netflix, Spotify, Uber, Expedia, Airbnb, Indriver and others.
But in addition to those, online advertising, online intermediation (commission), data transmission services and streaming would be taxed.
It is the third time that the Government tries to collect taxes from foreign digital providers, who have a greater presence in the national territory every day.
In previous times the initiative was rejected by the population.
DGII backtracks and postpones application of Rule 04-2022 to 2023
The General Directorate of Internal Taxes (DGII) announced today that Rule 04-2022 on Incorporation, Permanence, Exclusion and Sworn Statement in the Simplified Tax Regime (RST) It will have its application for the fiscal year from January 1 to December 31, 2022 so that taxpayers under its scope can adjust their payment expectations in advance.
In other words, the payment adjusted to the mandate of the standard It would take place in February 2023.
The administration’s decision aims to bring peace of mind to the Dominican people and to the sLiberal professional sectors and legal entities covered to the RST.
In addition, the DCII will exhaust a process of education and communication around the aforementioned standard. Corrects the distortion that allowed taxpayers in the RST to receive a double exemption. Thus affecting the principle of equity that should prevail in the tax administration.
In the Simplified Tax Regime there are 20,500 registered taxpayers divided into 16,500 liberal professionals and 4,000 legal entities.
