Mayor Francisco Azcué presided over a new Cabinet meeting this Friday, where one of the central topics was the implementation of the Tax Reform that will soon be sent to the Deliberative Council, and the new scenario posed by Resolution 267 of the National Secretariat of Commerce, which accelerates the deadlines for the modifications that the municipal administration has been working on regarding the public lighting municipal tax.
At the end of the meeting, Mayor Azcué explained that the Reform to be sent to the Council affects all areas of the Municipality and its relationship with taxpayers.
He specified that it involves “the elimination of more than 300 municipal taxes, and this program that we are going to present will be beneficial for the residents of Concordia, for the private sector, and for the productive sector because it streamlines, reduces times, and debureaucratizes the relationship between taxpayers and the Municipality, resulting in savings for all parties.”
He recalled that “the July Pact proposes a new moral contract between political leadership and citizens and proposes transforming the relationship between the state and the citizenry, and this program undoubtedly advances in this direction.”
PUBLIC LIGHTING MUNICIPAL TAX
Regarding the new scenario posed by Resolution 267 of the Secretariat of Industry and Commerce of the National Ministry of Economy, which would prevent the Municipality from collecting the Public Lighting service fee through invoices issued by the local electricity distributor, Mayor Francisco Azcué assured that this measure “accelerates the deadlines for work we were already doing with our Legal and Treasury teams to modify the calculation method for the municipal tax.”
He continued, “Lighting is a public service that the Municipality provides, for which it allocates significant amounts every month on behalf of what residents must pay, and for this, we will establish the mechanisms for its collection.”
He acknowledged that Resolution 267 will imply a drop in the collectability of the municipal tax and “we are working with our Legal and Treasury teams to withstand that impact.”
He recalled that “it is something that even our governor had already announced he wanted to move towards” and that the municipal Executive branch has a project in development in joint work with different institutions of the city, with different variables under study.
At the end of the meeting, Mayor Azcué explained that the Reform to be sent to the Council affects all areas of the Municipality and its relationship with taxpayers.
He specified that it involves “the elimination of more than 300 municipal taxes, and this program that we are going to present will be beneficial for the residents of Concordia, for the private sector, and for the productive sector because it streamlines, reduces times, and debureaucratizes the relationship between taxpayers and the Municipality, resulting in savings for all parties.”
He recalled that “the July Pact proposes a new moral contract between political leadership and citizens and proposes transforming the relationship between the state and the citizenry, and this program undoubtedly advances in this direction.”
PUBLIC LIGHTING MUNICIPAL TAX
Regarding the new scenario posed by Resolution 267 of the Secretariat of Industry and Commerce of the National Ministry of Economy, which would prevent the Municipality from collecting the Public Lighting service fee through invoices issued by the local electricity distributor, Mayor Francisco Azcué assured that this measure “accelerates the deadlines for work we were already doing with our Legal and Treasury teams to modify the calculation method for the municipal tax.”
He continued, “Lighting is a public service that the Municipality provides, for which it allocates significant amounts every month on behalf of what residents must pay, and for this, we will establish the mechanisms for its collection.”
He acknowledged that Resolution 267 will imply a drop in the collectability of the municipal tax and “we are working with our Legal and Treasury teams to withstand that impact.”
He recalled that “it is something that even our governor had already announced he wanted to move towards” and that the municipal Executive branch has a project in development in joint work with different institutions of the city, with different variables under study.