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The tax administration has a very advanced regulation to apply taxes at the source to the digital platforms, which will be applied this same year, revealed the general director of Internal Taxes, Luis Valdez Veras.
Valdez spoke up. at the Business Tower, after presenting Chapter 1 of the 2022 Tax Code at a thematic breakfast of the Association of Industries (AIRD).
that it is not a bill, but that it is being carried out. Agreeing on the application regulations to tax digital platforms, because the Tax Code does not contemplate this tax and that is why it does not have to go to Congress.
very advanced, and we are working with all the digital platforms that do not have a permanent address in the Dominican Republic, he specified.
explained that currently it is proposed to offset one tax with others, within the project to modernize the system so that it is easy to use the virtual platform, because the world is moving towards general, mandatory electronic invoicing .
He stressed that the legal framework of the country does not contemplate electronic invoicing and therefore it must be adapted to the global modernity that is already applied in 100% of countries such as Chile, Argentina and Mexico.
In this context, they are looking at two projects to move towards modernization, which are electronic invoicing and the modification of Title I.
The director general of The DGII explained to the press that the electronic invoicing project will be reduced. sent to Congress and must I will leave next week from the Executive Branch’s Legal Consultancy. He maintained that the number of taxpayers who use it is increasing, both those who have their own accounting systems and those with the free billing system available on the DGII portal, and at this time there are 164 voluntary taxpayers and more than 200 in formalization process.
In February of this year, the General Directorate of Internal Taxes (DGII) and the Legal Consultancy of the Executive Power summoned all interested persons to make their comments, suggestions and observations on the project of “Regulation that regulates the procedure for the application of ITBIS to digital services captured in the Dominican Republic and that are provided by foreign providers” for a period of 25 days, from February 15 to Monday, March 21 last.
The lien will be applied only service providers not domiciled or resident in the Dominican Republic who, from abroad, provide services in the national territory, such as Amazon, Expedia, Google, Netflix, Spotify, DiDi, Uber, Expedia, Airbnb, Indriver , among others.
The digital service subject to ITBIS collection is online advertising, online intermediation (commission), data transmission, “streaming”, among others.
Modification
The general director of the DGII said that one of the goals that was proposed was the modification of Title I of the Tax Code, with the purpose of not increasing more s taxes, but to help taxpayers.
Advances it will bring the project, he indicated, is a reduction of default to 3% per month up to 100% of the tax, a catalog of taxpayer rights, include a request mailbox in the OFV Virtual Office and not only notification of acts.
That the DGII publish the technical queries, that the need for a search warrant be recognized to inspect the taxpayer in closed places or personal dwellings, and that the taxpayer be obliged to pay compensatory interest for delayed reimbursement by the administration .
In addition, the taxpayer is allowed to compensate with taxes, advances and penalties and also automatically.
Another measure is the creation of an electronic auction. The only one in the execution of the tax debt.
Fuel subsidy
The official also lamented that that while collections increased RD$20,000 million above projections in the DGII only in these first five months of the year, RD$17,000 million had to be allocated to subsidize the internal price of gasoline and other fuels in order to keep it below RD$300 per gallon.
He argued that the first five months have been good, but given the world situation all the efforts, “however, of what? they serve if only RD$17,000 million go to fuel subsidies in five months”, without the Government being able to use them in social works, infrastructures and works development.