During an intervention in the Economic Affairs Commission of the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP, Parliament), the president commented that tax evasion by the non-state sector is one of the most harmful problems in the country´s economy.
He denounced that at some point in the first half of this year, “70 percent of the fiscal accounts of non-state forms of management” were empty, when “they should have deposits of the amounts resulting from their businesses.” These operations cannot go into personal accounts, he insisted, and explained that when sales of goods and services of various non-state companies are compared with deposits, “the cash does not match the bill.”
“There is no logical relationship between the large amounts of money they can generate with their offers, many motivated by a high level of imports, with what is in those tax accounts,” he reiterated. According to the head of state, there are also tax evasions in the state sector due to different violations, including the ineffective application of inspection processes.
The problem is the attitude of the different economic actors, whether state or not. It is not an issue of the forms of management or ownership. There is high tax evasion and we have to clean it up, he stated.
Nothing we question or debate, he stated, what we want is to order the country so that it is better. In our society, which makes great efforts in the construction of socialism, any economic entity, state or private, should feel proud and honored of contributing what belongs to society, he stressed.
The Economic Affairs Commission of the ANPP debated this Tuesday how the implementation of bankarization is progressing, a process whose objective is to reorganize the country’s financial flow, and evaluate the bases for the preparation of the new tax law.
Since the day before, deputies have been analyzing the main economic and social issues of Cuba in the 11 permanent commissions of Parliament, prior to the Third Ordinary Period of Sessions, in its 10th Legislature, which begins tomorrow and concludes next Saturday.
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