First Package of Tax Measures

The future Salvadoran Finance Minister is analyzing the first economic measures by the incoming government along with his team.

Friday, May 29, 2009

The future Finance Minister, Carlos Cáceres, said during an interview with La Prensa Gráfica that the first steps to be taken will be the unification of the Customs Department’s information system.

La Prensa Gráfica also published: "The elimination of tax preferences such as "draw-back," inequities in the payment of taxes on certain products and the creation of a simplified system of taxation for the informal sector are only part of the list of measures that the future Finance Minister is analyzing."

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