The acting president Delcy Rodríguezannounced this Wednesday the immediate suspension of the mandatory tax machines, while his administration prepares a tax reform to simplify procedures and modify tax collection mechanisms.
The decision was announced after a meeting with the superintendent of the National Integrated Customs and Tax Administration Service (Seniat), Román Maniglia, and the sectoral vice president of Administration and Digital Government, Anabel Pereira.
Maniglia stated that the elimination of this requirement seeks to reduce the obstacles that merchants face in formalizing their businesses. He also pointed out that the executive’s measures aim to facilitate the incorporation of small and medium-sized establishments into the tax system.
During the meeting, Rodríguez reported that the government reviewed the list of special taxpayers and reduced the number of economic actors included in that category from more than 132,000 to 44,000.
The representative He linked these changes to the need to expand the taxpayer base and improve tax revenues. “These are all measures that will allow citizens to have better measures in the tax sector, better collection… We have been talking about the very low numbers of those who pay taxes in the country; it is a matter of justice that everything that is collected is for the Venezuelan people,” he noted.
Rodríguez also reported a 27% increase in tax collection during October, with income above the goals planned for the month. In this context, he announced that the executive is working on a comprehensive tax reform aimed at simplifying procedures for citizens and optimizing tax collection.
Data integration to collect pending taxes
The digitalization of tax processes is another component of the strategy announced by the government. Rodríguez explained that there is a technological interconnection between the national bank, the Autonomous Service of Registries and Notaries (Saren), the Administrative Service for Identification, Migration and Immigration (Saime) and the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV).
According to the president, the integration of these systems with a new platform will allow information to be cross-referenced to identify pending tax obligations and strengthen collection mechanisms.
“We have a very important exchange of information that, integrated into a new system, will allow us to start charging what should be charged in the country, so that these resources go directly to the people,” he stated.
The president concluded with a call to continue the technological transformation of the public administration.
“Let us continue together on this path of digitalization and modernization to be more efficient in government management,” he stressed.
