The National Tax and Customs Directorate (DIAN) He already has a new director. As confirmed Diego Guevara, the Minister of Finance, The position It will be occupied by Luis Eduardo Llinás Chica.
“We are not going to make a tax reform through the back door, that is totally crazy because the tax are structural taxes that apply for the next validity. In the case of ‘online’ games and others will be taxes that apply immediately, the transactions and systems of the DIAN are easy to raise, that will be the first point of discussion in the possession we make to the Doctor (Luis Eduardo) Llinás In his assignment of the Dian”He said in the ‘La W’, in this regard, Minister Guevara.
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The Minhacienda also said that Llinás Chica will take office on Monday, January 27.
The new director of the DIAN He is a public accountant and has experience in financial intelligence. His most recent position was that of Director of the Information and Financial Analysis Unit (UIAF), which is responsible for preventing and detecting money laundering and terrorism financing.
The name of Llinás Chica came to public light when, from the UIAF, he warned President Gustavo Petro on the transaction of Espía Pegasus software, sold by Israel.
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The Dian who will receive Llinás Chica
Luis Eduardo Llinás Chica will replace in the Dian A Jairo Orlando Villabona, who was in office for just over six months.
In talk with portfolio, Villabona said that, although he managed to largely level the fiscal ship, It was not an easy task to deal with the overestimations of collection that were started in 2024.
On his departure from the Dian, Villabona said that “The collection was not met by the high expectations that were made. The problem was in the estimates that were made of the collection, in the litigation, it is in the royalties, there is the management that was oversized by the DIAN or in the problem of advances. From the beginning, proper estimates were not made. Based on this, we left many initiatives to increase the collection, taking into account that the collection that I receive is a consequence of what was previously coming. But it also depends on the changes made”
(See: Overestimation of the tax collection exceeded $ 45 billion by 2024).
Jairo Villabona, former director of the Dian.
As for the tasks that his successor would have to do, that is, Llinás Chica, the former director of the entity said: “The first thing I would do is an analysis of tax benefits. It would also request stronger laws in the tax reform to punish tax evasion. The laws in Colombia to punish tax evasion are very lax and many people risks because they know that it will finally be very difficult to go to jail for evading taxes. In countries that have progressive systems, it is very serious to evade taxes and people go to jail. In Colombia, evasion is more than $ 100 billion pesos a year. That is, if you control 20% of the evasion, you do not have to make tax reform“
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