This Thursday, November 3 President Gustav Petro made a visit in Aracataca, Madalena. There she responded to criticism from Senator María Fernanda Cabal about the tax reform.
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The president assured that he would not allow unfounded criticism against the tax bill because there are those who say that “the poor want everything given away”.
“Many criticisms fall, some valid others not. The ones that do not fit is that you believe that the poor want everything for free, they say out there“, pointed out Petro. In his speech, the head of state mentioned one of the best-known phrases said by the Cabal: “work bums, says a very famous lady and she is very rich.”
“Then this logical exercise (tax reform) is criticized. It must be understood that in a social peace pact the most fortunate sectors can transfer part of that wealth to the weakest sectors of Colombian society. That is the way to build equity” concluded the president.
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For now, the senator of the Democratic Center has not referred to the taunts made by the president. It should be remembered that the tax reform bill has already been approved in the Senate and is being reviewed in the House of Representatives.
Among the points that have already been approved in the Chamber are measures for the mining-energy sector stand out, such as the non-deductibility of royalties from income tax, and the income surcharge for companies in the sector that reaches 10% in the case of coal and 15% in oil companies.
Among the articles that passed in the Senate, article 6 stands out, which establishes the sum of the schedular net income for the calculation of the income tax; 12, which maintains a 10% rate on dividends by national companies; and 22, which includes occasional tax-exempt earnings such as housing property, marital or inheritance portion, books, clothes and utensils.
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