Senator Paloma Valencia, of the Democratic Center, pointed out that next year the world will have “a recession that will affect households and that when the taxes come in, the mother of a family needs to remember who were the ones who voted those taxes : the flour for the pies, the pre-cooked arepas, the sausages, the ham, the chorizo, the compotes, the chocolate bars, the ice cream, the instant coffee and chocolate, the soft drinks”.
And Senator David Luna, of Cambio Radical, announced the negative voice of the community “because this is a reform with no commitment to the fight against evasion and smuggling and no commitment to austerity, which is what Colombians expected from this government. And it is not a ‘Robin Hood’ reform because it affects small and medium-sized companies who will be subject to the same taxation as those of large conglomerates, and the reform also affects innovation, technology and entrepreneurship.”
Next Thursday, the vote on the tax reconciliation will take place in the plenary session of the House and, if approved, the government’s flagship project will receive presidential approval.
Source: El Heraldo
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