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He Internal Revenue Service detected and reported that 437 thousand 703 workers obtained the Middle Class Bonus delivered by the government fraudulently, by “declaring a less than real amount in their salaries for July.”
“After starting the verification processes to determine the correct fulfillment of the requirements established in the Law for the delivery of the Tax Contribution for the Middle Class, the Internal Revenue Service detected that 437,703 dependent workers presented differences between the amount that they self-declared as taxable salary for July 2020 at the time of requesting the Bonus, and the actual amount calculated from their mandatory pension contributions or from what is actually received “explained the SII through a statement.
In this way, those 437 thousand workers “They do not comply with the legal requirement of having a decrease of 30% or more in their salaries for said month, compared to the average total income of 2019.”
From the universe of irregular cases, 400 thousand 603 are private sector workers and 37 thousand 100 are State officials, detailed the Service, that indicated that the fiscal resources involved in this benefit amount to 256 million dollars.
🔵Now: Internal Revenue Service reports that 437 thousand workers received the Middle Class Bonus, without meeting the requirements. 37 thousand would be public officials.
The fiscal resources involved amount to 256 million dollars. @Cooperative pic.twitter.com/0woJTX5cIP
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RETURN WITHOUT PENALTY
Internal Taxes indicated that, faced with this situation, a procedure was “established for workers to restore unduly received amounts, without readjustments, fines or interest, through a platform available on the website of the General Treasury of the Republic, until November 30 “.
However, he warned that “once this process is concluded, the actions regarding those who do not make this return will be determined.”
“The Service will contact these workers in the next few days informing them of their situation, who will have the opportunity to provide information that proves circumstances that may not be considered, “he added.
THE DELIVERY WAS BASED ON AN “ACT OF TRUST”
He director of the SII, Fernando Barraza, recalled that “the Fiscal Contribution for the Middle Class was defined by the Law for workers who, as a result of the pandemic, had seen their income affected”, and “it was delivered to more than 1.6 million workers”.
“The legal regulations established that the delivery of this bond of up to 500 thousand pesos it was based on an 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 information that other institutions could provide us with a delay of two months, That was what we did, “explained Barraza.
“By accessing this information, we carry out the corresponding verifications and analyzes, and based on their results, we are developing the actions for these workers to restore these amounts,” emphasized Barraza.
WHAT WAS ANALYZED
In its statement, the SII explained that it carried out this review as part of its obligation to “verify the origin of the benefit”, established in article 13 of the Law No. 21,252, which created financial support.
In this way, he requested information that would allow him to access the information corresponding to the salaries obtained by dependent workers last July. Thus, 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).
“Thus, Based on the mandatory social security contributions, it was able to determine the monthly taxable salary and verify whether the taxpayers actually had the fall of at least 30% in their salaries in July, required by the Law“, he stated.
Once the information crossingsAccording to information provided by the AFC, the records of workers who had unemployment insurance payments were discarded, because they were unemployed or in some situation of work suspension. As well as those who were on medical leave or with work leave for 20 days or more, according to the available information provided by the Superintendence of Social Security. The records of the workers who had returned the Bonus were also eliminated.
Likewise, to include the possibility of an error on the part of those involved, a variation margin of 5 percent was applied to the registered values.
“Within the framework of the verification of compliance with the requirements in the delivery of the benefits established in the Law that the Service will continue to develop, Calls the workers who are in the described condition to restore these amounts from now on“, close the note.
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