The director of the National Emergency System, Santiago Caramés, assured that the measure would be unfair with medicines, which also have 10% of this tax.
The director of National Emergency System (Sinae), Santiago Caramésrejected the possibility of the government exonerating VAT to repellents due to the increase in cases of dengue in Uruguay, and explained that a part of the population is already receiving that benefit.
Since the first death was confirmed by dengue in the country, and even since cases began to grow – especially in the department of Leap-, The issue of exempting repellents from taxes was on the debate table. On the one hand, the mayor of Salta Andres Lima requested it in mid-March, as part of a set of measures that sought to contain an epidemic that was already observed in Brazil and Argentina.
The possibility of temporarily eliminating VAT on repellents had also been raised by the Minister of Health Karina Rando, when he announced that the government was analyzing the alternative and that it would carry out a price study to check whether the values of this product had increased disproportionately to the growth in demand.
However, Sinae ruled out the measure, at least for the moment. As Caramés explained, the VAT on repellents is 10%, the same percentage as that of medications.
“So removing VAT from repellents, I don’t know if it’s so fair because we should also remove it from medicines and, in turn, the people who charge Uruguay Social Cardsfamily allowances Equity Planpeople who receive different benefits from the B.P.S. they have exonerated VAT. The VAT is returned to them,” stated the director of the National Emergency System, in that sense.
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Regarding the situation in Leap, the department with the most infections in the country – it has 89 confirmed cases, which represent 38.5% of all cases detected in the national territory – Caramés assured that they are fumigating the city and that Sinae is delivering repellents to prevent it from continuing to grow. the focus of contagion dengue.
“We have been delivered in the Departmental Emergency Committee more than 80,000 repellents,” he said.
Until Friday, according to data from the Ministry of Public Healththere were 231 cases of dengue in Uruguay: 120 indigenous and 111 imported.
Source: Ambito
