The Executive Branch proposed an ambitious goal: recovering ¢75 billion from 800 large evaders that are in the process of judicial collection.
To this end, the government plans to increase – starting in the second half of this year – more than a thousand control operations and implement a new automated process for the review of goods in Customs.
The announcement was made on Wednesday morning by the Vice Minister of Revenue, Nogui Acosta, at an event in the Presidency of the Republic, where President Carlos Alvarado and Finance Minister Rocío Aguilar were also present.
To recover these ¢75 billion, the administration will resort to import embargoes, rent payments, ticket offices collected at public events, and any other credit in favor of the debtors who are in legal collection.
Controling evasion is everyone’s business,”
said President Carlos Alvarado, after the vice minister’s announcement.
Minister Aguilar explained that as a result of a first application of this measure in recent days, the Treasury initiated the confiscation of raw materials from a debtor company, which led to the payment of an amount close to ¢1,300 million.
Another of the contemplated actions is the collection of sums drawn from deceased pensioners, which will be carried out in coordination with the National Pensions Directorate. As an example, only 11 cases of recovered sums would generate more than ¢236 million.
In customs, the implementation of a new process for the selection of merchandise review, fully automated, that will come to radically change the manual process that has been done until now, was announced.
From the Directorate General of Taxation they will strengthen the control plan for 117,000 taxpayers to determine why they declared zero tax last year and will initiate an action program on 1,500 taxpayers, who are not complying with the obligation to use an electronic invoice.
This national plan to fight against evasion also includes intensifying the use of the Denuncia YA application, made available by the Ministry of Finance to facilitate citizen complaints, which are fundamental for control actions.