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The Internal Revenue Service (SII) reported this Friday that more than 437 thousand workers who obtained the so-called Middle Class Bonus (of $ 500 thousand) They declared a lower income and, therefore, must return the benefit.
After initiating the verification processes established in the Law for the delivery of the Fiscal Contribution for the Middle Class, the SII detected that 437,703 dependent workers presented differences between the amount that they self-declared as a taxable salary for July 2020 and the actual amount calculated from their mandatory social security contributions or from what is actually received.
In this way, said the Service, “they do not comply with the legal requirement of having a decrease of 30% or more in their salaries for said month, with respect to the average total income of 2019. Of them, 400,603 are private sector workers and 37,100 state officials ”.
The fiscal resources involved reach US $ 256 million.
Return of monies
The SII established a procedure for workers to restore the amounts unduly received, without readjustments, penalties or interest, through a platform available on the website of the General Treasury of the Republic, until November 30.
Once this process is completed, The actions regarding those who do not make this return will be determined.
The Service indicated that it will contact these workers in the next few days informing them of their situation, who will have the possibility of providing information that proves circumstances that may not be considered.
The director of the SII, Fernando Barraza, stated that “these actions are part of the mandate contained in the Law to verify the correct fulfillment of the necessary requirements to access this benefit, which was delivered to more than 1.6 million workers” .
Barraza explained that “the legal regulations established that the delivery of this bond of up to $ 500 thousand was based on a act of trust. Workers had to register, under a sworn statement, their salary information for the month of July, which was not available on the application date, and for whose verification we had to process the background information that other institutions could provide us with a delay of two months, which it was what we did ”.
The SII director added that “by accessing this information, we carry out the corresponding verifications and analyzes, and based on their results, we are developing actions for these workers to restore said amounts.”
Analysis performed
The SII carried out this review as part of its obligation to “verify the origin of the benefit”, established in article 13 of Law No. 21,252. In this way, he requested information that would allow him access the information corresponding to the salaries obtained by dependent workers last July.
For this reason, it requested this information from the Superintendencies of Pensions and Social Security, BancoEstado, the Comptroller General of the Republic, the General Treasury of the Republic and the Unemployment Fund Administrator (AFC).
“In this way, from the mandatory social security contributions it was possible to determine the monthly taxable salary and verify if the taxpayers actually had the fall of at least 30% in their salaries for July, required by law, “said the SII.
Once the information cross-checks had been carried out, the records of workers who had unemployment insurance payments were discarded, because they were unemployed or in some situation of work suspension, according to information provided by the AFC, as well as those who They were on medical leave or on work leave for 20 days or more, according to the available information provided by the Superintendency of Social Security.
Too the records of the workers who had made returns were eliminated of the bond.
Likewise, to include the possibility of an error on the part of those involved, the registered values were applied a variation margin of 5%.
“Within the framework of verifying compliance with the requirements in the delivery of the benefits established in the Law that will continue to develop the Service, calls the workers who are in the described condition to restore these amounts from now on,” concluded the SII.
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