Juan B Perez put the bitter note during the fair Fadja, to know a letter addressed to Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla where he suggests raising the tax on localized gambling type better known as Slot machines.
With calculator in hand, companies seek to demonstrate why the operator must go first and not the tax for Coljuegos
This letter shows that the entity is focusing on achieving a greater collection of the stability of the industry, increasing the tax rate, in this way it is like the efforts of the government are being directed to the generation of a greater collection regardless of the cost.
Even at the fair, Cornazar had the opportunity to sit down with Juan B Pérez to express the need of the industry to create competitiveness through precise and valuable strategies that generate dynamism, not implement measures that seek to increase revenues by collection for the State.
In this way, Elizabeth Maya and Leon Dario who are the main head of the union, sought to demonstrate with numbers and calculator, the impact it has at this time not only for the industry but also for the country's economy, increase taxes to a sector where the operator has long drowned and merely trying to survive by covering their operating costs. Even, it should be remembered that Cornazar has been analyzing VAT for some time now with experts such as the national firm, Ochoa Asociados, seeking to elaborate a concept against the analysis of the tax regulation of the more than 20 UVT that have increased exponentially when passing years.
Well, at the beginning of all these changes and regulations, the industry started with 5% due to the economic emergency with former president Álvaro Uribe, from there it was increased to 16% and finally in 2017 there was an increase in the tax burden, the which was placed in a formulation with a fixed rate of 19%, to which is added an amount of UVT that annually increases its value.
"It is one thing to raise more resources and another to generate more resources, since to raise in the case of those located, it is due to the collection of a higher tax rate, which in absolute terms ranges between 18% and 21% of income. gross, that is, it is paying for elements that generate loss in the year. While, generate resources, requires a more technical task for the entity and willingness to create through the regulation attractive conditions for the market and investors, "said Evert Montero, president of Fecoljuegos
In order to understand the size in terms of the increase in tax burdens for operators of slot machines, we must know that 70% of the elements pay a fixed fee.
Reason why, these same slots machines are not generating even the minimum income expected by the State, which is equivalent to 12%, with profitability below the minimum or being nonexistent.
"You do not have to kill the chicken of the golden eggs because the localized games generate 60% of the income and they do not grow because: or the number of slots machines is not increased (because the operators have no interest in opening new businesses) or are declining due to the impossibility of maintaining the casinos and rooms in operation "assure the figures and the guilds
Finally, it is for this reason that Coljuegos and the State must understand and understand a dynamic in which the common good prevails, including the national economy, the stability of entrepreneurs, indirect and direct jobs forged by the sector and the collection of government with who carry out different strategies besides those directed at the health of Colombians.
This has been a false departure of the president of Coljuegos, is the general comment among those who have had access to the document
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