Given the “exceptional and atypical situation” that the municipality of Neiva is going through, the Ministry of Finance seeks to provide great aid to defaulters so that they can catch up with their obligations to the administration. The rapporteur councilor views this proposal favorably.
CATHERINE MANCHOLA
The debt that legal and natural persons have with the Mayor’s Office of Neiva amounts to more than $215,000 million, including taxes, such as the unified property tax and industry and commerce, and fines of all kinds, among which traffic summonses and summonses for concepts stand out. of the Police Code, among others.
Taking into account that according to the Ministry of Finance, there is additionally a fiscal deficit of almost $90,000 million ($89,007,225,756) and accounts payable that exceed 41,000 million, “which put the fiscal sustainability of the municipality at risk and is a very serious exceptional and atypical situation,” the administration presented a draft agreement to forgive part of the interests of defaulters.
It is a “project to discount late payment interest by up to 80% for people who owe taxes to the municipality,” said the president of the Council, Juan Diego Amaya. For his part, Oscar Iván Leiva Bocanegra, Secretary of the Treasury of Neiva added that the proposed discount includes penalties and interest for people who have debts before the entry into force of the agreement and catch up before April 30 of this year.
So, it is a measure that “if the Council were to approve it, it would eventually benefit all those who for some reason have not been able to catch up with the municipality, for example, in times of pandemic, many people were summoned to court on the issue of peak and ID, and now there are also mobility summonses for the vest, or violations of traffic regulations,” said the secretary. They could take shelter with help.
The official stressed that the entire debt must be canceled and it is the condition that has been established by the Secretariat that authored the project, which will now be studied in the Second Commission of the Council, that is, Treasury and Public Credit. Jesus Garzon He will be the rapporteur councilor and welcomes this initiative.
The lobbyist indicated that the 80% discount on interest would go according to the initiative until April 30, but in addition, until July 31 the forgiveness will be 60%. “The Mayor’s Office plans to recover 25% for the first and another 25% for the second”, that is one of the scenarios. He announced that “we are going to give the positive presentation” and is waiting for the legal and economic concepts.
The goals
For this year, the collection goal through freely allocated current resources amounts to $186,000 million and to date the collection amounts to $22,000 million, reported the Ministry of Finance.
During the 2023 term of former Mayor Gorky Muñoz, the collection objective was not met.
“Invite the entire community, Neivans, taxpayers and businessmen so that we continue paying our obligations in a fulfilled manner,” concluded the Secretary of the Treasury.
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