New Moves by Businesses Against Anti-Evasion Law

The Council of Private Enterprise and the Industrial Association of Honduras are to interpose a constitutional challenge.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

In coming days, both associations will lodge appeals with the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) against the Law on Income and Efficiency in Public Expenditure.

An article on the website of La Tribuna reports, "The law which aims to challenge businesses establishes a fight against tax evasion, reduction of costs and compensation for credit and debit card users, and to separate the Administrative Office of Seized Goods (OABI) from the Public Ministry (MP), and which remains assigned to an agency of the executive branch. "

The legal representative of the National Association of Manufacturers (ANDI), Gabino Santos Carbajal, said the new rules contradict the rules of the Constitution by giving too many powers to the head of the Directorate of Revenue, "the power to make life or death decisions over a business, at any time that occurs to them, simply on the assumption of being in arrears. "

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