US EditionGovernors and Mayors of Capitals Rebel Against Petro's Taxes
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The governors of Colombia have decided to rebel against President Gustavo Petro. In an unprecedented political action, the regional leaders, grouped in the National Federation of Departments, announced on Thursday afternoon that they not only disagree with the economic emergency decreed by the central government, but refuse to apply the decree that increases taxes on liquors and cigarettes because they affect “the territorial governance, the fis…
Boston Herald
Independent EspañolAssociated Press BOGOTA (AP) — A group of governors in Colombia refused Thursday to implement in their territories the economic emergency decree declared by President Gustavo Petro in December, which allows him to establish temporary taxes without congressional approval. The governor of Valle del Cauca, Dilian Francisca Toro, told reporters that 17 of the country's 32 governors made the decision after a meeting of the National Federation of Depa…
The risk of the implementation of the decree of the economic emergency has in mind the finances of the Factory of Liquors of Antioquia. Other news: The reasons of Antioquia for not applying the decree of economic emergency The increase of the tax on consumption and of the VAT, which goes from 5 to 19 %, not only increases the price of the liquors to the final consumer, but also reduces by 200 billion pesos in the annual profits. “It affects us g…
After the opposition of 17 governors to the emergency decree that adjusts the tax on liquors and cigarettes, the Ministry of Finance cited them to a working table with the “purpose of clarifying the different concerns” on the subject. Noises arise because, with the figure of rent given, the decree transfers to the government the tax on the consumption of these products, which today receive the departments. The measures of economic emergency do n…
The president and 16 other governors of the country reject the measure of President Gustavo Petro on income tax on liquor and cigarettes.
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