President Gustavo Petro insists that another tax reform will be based before Congress. This was confirmed by the Head of State through his account in X, this Wednesday, January 29.
According to President Petro, The Government has had to freeze items from the General Budget of the Nation.
“Of course there is a general problem in all the postponed items, that not cut: if the Congress does not approve the tax reform that will be presented to them, These items cannot be financed and will pass from the postponement to the cut. The priority imposed was not to postpone the resources generated by social justice in Colombia and universal rights, ”said President Petro in part of an extensive message in X.
In week, two congressmen from different political parties referred to the effects that a tax reform would have in the pocket of Colombians.
Christian Garcés, representative to the Chamber for the Democratic Center, said that although it is clear that there is a indebtedness in the country, product of the economic effects left by the Covid-19 pandemic, What is right now is that the Petro government is “waste.”
“Because there are the expenses in the creation of the Ministry of Equity of France Márquez, with very low execution; Embassy creation, Constant trips from the government everywhere to countries where it is not necessary to go. A complete waste”, Said the congressman.
In addition, Garcés said that while President Petro warned that he will present a tax reform again, the Congress of the Republic must be very responsible in the study of this Thinking about the pocket of Colombians who can’t stand more taxes.
“The government does not care and the solution is what more taxes for entrepreneurs? When we need it is that entrepreneurs believe companies, employment, income for Colombians. More taxes for the middle class that is suffocated? Moreover, there is the problem of programs that reached the low middle class that were important, such as housing subsidies and the issue of Icetex credits. That is, this government has been generating crisis in all sectors, among those security, and now the great surprise, international relations with the most important partner that Colombia has that is the United States, ”he said in Congressman Garcés.
For his part, Alirio Uribe, representative to the Chamber for the historical pact, said that the Petro government seeks with said tax reform that he would present to Congress, It is to cover the fiscal deficit that has been presented in the country.
Congressman Uribe said that the government Petro what he has been doing is paying debts that have left previous mandates.
“They are a number of issues in which the government has been paying. This government has not indebted the country as other governments have done (…) I think they will be the same points that had been looked last year. What also has to do with hybrid vehicles. Some of these issues that would give tax benefits to some companies and tax others. Some dividend issues, ”said Uribe in