From September 9, the registration and presentation of individual work contracts in Guatemala will be done electronically, which is expected to reduce the time it takes to complete management to three days.
The new procedure, which today involves a personal procedure and whose resolution required between 15 and 30 days, is simplified to three days, between its submission, resolution and registration, which means the streamlining of procedures for employers, workers and the creation of an electronic registry that will allow the ministry better controls, informed the Ministry of Labor.
From January to April of this year, the number of mercantile companies registered totaled 13,975, 15% more than the number reported in the same period in 2018.
Data from the Mercantile Registry (RM) specify that between the first four months of 2018 and the same period of 2019, 1,783 more companies were registered in the country, going from 12,192 to 13,975.
Since June 3, in Guatemala, the purchase and sale of properties will require a single process to obtain certification of property and cadastral appraisals.
Before this change was implemented, it was necessary to compile separately the certifications of the value at which the real estate was registered in the Municipality, the fiscal value of Dirección de Catastro y Avalúo de Bienes Inmuebles (DICABI) or the value declared in the deed of Purchase-Sale or what was agreed upon by buyer and seller.
The costs incurred by businessmen in Nicaragua, because of excessive procedures and low efficiency of foreign trade systems is 25% additional to the value of the goods, while in El Salvador and Costa Rica, amounts to 18% and 16%, respectively.
A study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) specifies that the costs paid by businessmen in Nicaragua, because of excessive procedures and low efficiency of foreign trade systems is 25.3% additional to the value of the goods, followed by El Salvador with 18.3%, Costa Rica with 16.3%, Honduras with 15.8%, Guatemala with 14% and Panama with 9%.
In Guatemala, a new entity was created called Sociedad de Emprendimiento, whose registration cost will range between $128 and $192 and will be available as of the first quarter of 2019.
The Ministry of Economy is working to make the procedure, which will be established within the Regulation of the Law for Strengthening Entrepreneurship, available to interested parties for the first quarter of next year.
Reducing trade barriers and procedures, increasing legal security and improving productive infrastructure are part of the changes required by the business sector for the region's economic development.
In Guatemala, the 12th Ibero-American Business Meeting is held, in which the private sector presents proposals to face the current challenges and generate opportunities for the countries of the region.
In Guatemala, since the beginning of September a new version of the Electronic System for Export Authorization has been available which includes changes that make it easier to process requests.
The Guatemalan Association of Exporters (Agexport) reported that as of Monday, September 3, the newly designed and reengineered Electronic System for Export Authorization (SEADEX) has been available to exporters, a platform of the Single Window for Exports (VUPE) ) that is more intuitive and easier to use when filling in and sending documents and complying with non-tax export requirements.
In Guatemala, the builders' union and the government signed an agreement to work on simplifying and reducing procedures required to obtain a construction license.
The Guatemalan Chamber of Construction (CGC) and the Ministry of Economy (Mineco), have signed an agreement for institutions working in the process of issuing licenses, to work together in order to reduce the existing bureaucracy.
In Guatemala, the government has extended until January 3, 2020, the timeframe for regularizing projects, works, industries or activities that do not have an environmental impact study.
The tax authority has launched a new electronic platform, which lets exporters to register in only 24 hours.
With this new method available through the Virtual Agency, wait times have been considerably reduced, since the inscription in the categories of habitual exporter, optional and special regime for the refund of tax credits had until now been carried out face-to-face and as a whole they took on average 67 days.
In Guatemala, it has been announced that by the end of the year a digital platform will be implemented that will have the capacity to inform, in minutes, whether an environmental impact study is feasible or not.
The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources plans to expedite the reception and approval of environmental licenses, and for this it is preparing a digital platform that will respond to users about the feasibility or not of their applications.
A free virtual seminar has been organized for November 30 on the procedures and requisites for exporting food products to the United States.
The free webinar organized by the Secretariat of Economic Integration (SIECA) is called "Exporting food products to the United States, who regulates it?"and will be held online on November 30, from 10 am to 11:30 am.
In Guatemala, four bills are being prepared to facilitate registration of one-person companies, export and import of goods and to regulate bankruptcy of a company.
The goal of the National Competitiveness Program (Pronacom) is to implement a series of measures to help improve the country's deteriorating business climate, which, in addition to being affected by political problems, continues to face the serious problem of excessive bureaucracy.Pronacom is working on four bills that it plans to present next year.
Salvadoran industrialists claim that with the presidential veto of the administrative simplification law, the country has lost a valuable opportunity to improve the already deteriorated business climate.
EDITORIAL
With the veto of the Administrative Simplification Act, the Salvadoran government is sending a clear message to the business community and to society in general: There is no interest in paving the way for the private sector to generate more jobs and, consequently, more wealth and socioeconomic development.
Proportion of people who have paid a bribe in the last year to access a public service: in Panama 38%, in Honduras 33%, in El Salvador 31%, in Nicaragua 30%, in Guatemala 28% and in Costa Rica, 24%.
EDITORIAL
The report "People and Corruption: Latin America and the Caribbean", prepared by Transparency International, shows how inhabitants of Latin American countries have got used to corruption: from the scandalous cases at the highest political level to under the table payments which are made on a daily basis when carrying out procedures as simple as requesting medical care in a public hospital or obtaining a document from a public office.
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