The Municipal Director of Revenue, Fernando Marsicano, announced that the administration of Mayor Francisco Azcué is preparing a tax reform that “will transform the relationship between the state and the citizenry,” in line with the proposals of the recently signed July Pact.
He anticipated that it involves an amendment to the Tax Ordinance to be sent by Mayor Francisco Azcué to the Deliberative Council, which “not only means direct economic savings for the taxpayer, but also fulfills the objectives we set from the first day we took office to facilitate business management and reduce arbitrariness, because the tangle of regulations sometimes makes it impossible to clearly determine obligations.”
Marsicano detailed that the modification is the result of joint work between different areas of the Municipality, the Council of Professionals in Economic Sciences, and representatives of various institutions that will benefit from the elimination of municipal taxes and bureaucratic procedures.
The tax reform will be presented next Tuesday the 17th at an event to be held at the Convention Center, led by Mayor Francisco Azcué, the Secretary Coordinator of Cabinet and Treasury, Pablo Ferreyra, the President of the Deliberative Council, Magdalena Reta de Urquiza, and will be attended by representatives of the Council of Professionals in Economic Sciences and the institutions that participated in the drafting or will be beneficiaries of the modification.
The Director of Revenue remarked that the project to reduce municipal taxes will also have a beneficial effect on the municipal administration “because it will allow it to focus effectively on a few well-designed and equitable taxes, within the framework of more efficient budgetary management.”
He anticipated that it involves an amendment to the Tax Ordinance to be sent by Mayor Francisco Azcué to the Deliberative Council, which “not only means direct economic savings for the taxpayer, but also fulfills the objectives we set from the first day we took office to facilitate business management and reduce arbitrariness, because the tangle of regulations sometimes makes it impossible to clearly determine obligations.”
Marsicano detailed that the modification is the result of joint work between different areas of the Municipality, the Council of Professionals in Economic Sciences, and representatives of various institutions that will benefit from the elimination of municipal taxes and bureaucratic procedures.
The tax reform will be presented next Tuesday the 17th at an event to be held at the Convention Center, led by Mayor Francisco Azcué, the Secretary Coordinator of Cabinet and Treasury, Pablo Ferreyra, the President of the Deliberative Council, Magdalena Reta de Urquiza, and will be attended by representatives of the Council of Professionals in Economic Sciences and the institutions that participated in the drafting or will be beneficiaries of the modification.
The Director of Revenue remarked that the project to reduce municipal taxes will also have a beneficial effect on the municipal administration “because it will allow it to focus effectively on a few well-designed and equitable taxes, within the framework of more efficient budgetary management.”