The National Party candidate also spoke of “debureaucratizing the State, favoring imports and generating more competition.”
The presidential candidate of the National Party, Laura Raffo, He assured that “there is room” to lower the taxes, promoting this measure for his eventual management, if he wins the 2024 elections.
Raffo must first draw in the white line Alvaro Delgado, who starts as a favorite in the polls. However, to differentiate himself from his adversary within the PN, he proposes a plan that involves “lowering the cost of living” of the Uruguayans.
“It is based on three axes: the first is debureaucratize the State and remove all that burden that the citizen, the SME and the entrepreneur have of fees, certifications, registrations, all things that weigh a lot on the pocket,” said the economist in statements to Telemundo.
Secondly, he urged “to favor the imports, while in the third measure he assured that he seeks to “generate more competence in the markets”. “We already know that when two companies offer the same product, they fight for customers and end up lowering the price,” he argued.
For Raffo, with these measures his management will focus “on how to promote the generation of Job positions, also with tax relief.”
What do the candidates say about taxes?
The one of the taxes It is a debate that gains strength in the run-up to the elections 2024. From the ruling party, Slim He was forceful: “I am not going to raise taxes. Any correction goes on the side of the public spending”.
In it Colorado Party, the precandidate Gabriel Gurmendez argued that 500 million dollars annually could be “returned to the taxpayer” by lowering the Social Security Assistance Tax (IASS) and the Personal Income Tax (IRPF), while its competitors Tabare Viera and Robert Silva They expressed themselves along the same lines, although without concrete proposals.
In it Wide Front They spoke out in the government program to reduce indirect taxes such as VAT and the Imesi, although Yamandu Orsi He asked “not to lie” in the campaign and noted: “If it goes up, if it goes down… it seems to me like a discussion that leads to nothing.”
While, Carolina Cosse, Although he did not express himself regarding the subject, in his farewell to the Montevideo Municipality moved forward with a tax reduction, which includes a reduction in the Real Estate Tax.
Source: Ambito
