The additional income that the government of the president Luis Abinader aims to raise with its proposal reform fiscal are equivalent to the increase in spent in the roster public which he did during his four years in office.
This was stated by the former president Leonel Fernández, during a press conference in which he showed the figures on the increase who has also done this administration in it spent in advertisingin the payment of the debt public and the deficit of the sector electric.
Given this reality, Fernández assured that the reform It is an attempt by government to make the population pay the “waste of the government“.
“Generally governments go into debt for capital expenditures, to carry out works, these do not. The PRM increases the debt to continue paying salary, advertising and all the waste that they incur,” he stated.
The also president of the Fuerza del Pueblo party explained that this administration has managed 5 billion, 231,500 million pesos, which it has used to increase the spent public by 90.6%, since 2019.
State expenditures went from 744,267.11 million pesos in 2019 to 1,418,686.51 million in 2024, almost double.
The problem of this spentaccording to the politician, is that most of it is consumed in current expenses and not in capital expenses. The latter is the one dedicated to the construction of infrastructure and investments.
“He spent of capital, in infrastructure projects, has been the lowest in 72 years,” he indicated.
According to the numbers that he showed in his space “The voice of the people”, the deficit financial sector electricity went from 697.4 million dollars in 2020 to 1,369.1 million dollars in 2023, almost doubling in three years.
It would also have increased the spent in advertising at 3,646 million pesos, for a difference of 56.6%.
As for the roster publicFernández accused the administration perremeista to add 97,791 employees in four years, bringing it to 733,824. He increase is 15.14%.
The payment of these new salaries would represent an increase in the cost of the roster in 122,483 million pesos each year, an amount greater than the 110,000 million pesos that it seeks to collect annually with the reform tax.
“Only in the increase of the roster there is more money than what is aspired with reform fiscal“he asserted.
The institutions that have hired the most are the Ministry of Public Administration (186%), the Ministry of Energy and Mines (139%), the Ministry of the Interior and Police (120%), the Presidency (117%) and the Ministry of Defense (108%).
Regressive reform
The opposition leader argued that the reform that the Executive Branch has put on the table is regressive and more political than technical, because it increases the taxes direct and indirect to finance the spent.
According to his forecast, he could reduce the consumption of homeswill discourage investmentwill reduce collections, penalize savings.
He disagreed with all liens that the Government has raised, especially those that will fall on the food of first necessity. Also, the elimination of exemptions for cinema and tourism.
“The homes most needy will face increases in essential products, from food even medicines, while, the sectors businesses will see their taxes virtually unchanged,” he said.
rated as dictatorship fiscal the obligation for people to present sworn declarations of assets annually for earning more than 52,027 pesos each month.
Your proposal
Instead, Fernández proposed a reform fiscal comprehensive that is based on three axes: equity in the system tax, reduction of the evasion fiscaldecrease in spent and incentives to attract businessmen to formality.
On behalf of the People’s Force, he requested the government to summon a dialogue to the sectors economic and social to adjust its proposal to the current reality of the Dominican Republic.
“This reform fiscalthey cannot pass as it is, it would be a very serious mistake by the governmenttry to get Congress to approve this as it has been sent, because it would be a provocation to the Dominican people and would be generating a situation of ungovernability in the Dominican Republic,” he warned.
