A group of taxi drivers will go with their vehicles to the Public Ministry on Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. with the objective of filing a complaint against public officials for failure to comply with duties and other charges.
The protesters will meet in Tibás and Desamparados at 9:30 in the morning, to meet later in the Office of the Prosecutor. The complaints will be made against Helio Fallas, Minister of Finance; Ana Helena Chacón, Vice President of the Republic, and Alexander Mora, Minister of Foreign Trade.
According to Gilberth Ureña, in October 2016 the taxi drivers reported to the Finance Ministry that Uber’s money was going out in remittances without any control.
The idea was to investigate the evasion in the payment of remittances and the tax evasion of the money coming into Costa Rica,”
explained Ureña.
The taxi driver said that in February 2017 they made the same complaint, and in August 2017 they repeated the action before the President of the Republic, Luis Guillermo Solís,
but the remittances continue to come out of the country and we do not know where they come from and there’s nothing being done about it.”
Therefore, the spokesman indicated that the objective is to file a complaint with the Attorney General, Emilia Navas against Helio Fallas, Minister of Finance, for a possible breach of duties in the public service,
because it is their duty to monitor how much money is being taken from the remittances that are leaving the country, if they are paying the exit taxes of the money and how much money is being paid and to what accounts (…).”
Ureña said that they will also file a complaint against Ana Helena Chacón and Alexander Mora, for having issued an executive decree in the past that allows the Uber platform to work in a free zone, exempt from taxes, without having legal activity in the country.