The president of the Association of Inspectors of the Service, Juan Apablaza, pointed out that “of the 430,000 people who should not have received this bonus, among the people who have claimed -that as of October 13 there were 8,200 people- a figure slightly higher than 40 % did correspond to the middle class bonus. And there are people who, even though they are entitled to the bonus, do not want to claim because they are afraid. “
The Internal Revenue Service detailed the process with which they requested 437,000 workers to return the so-called Middle Class Bonus, for acquiring it in an erroneous or fraudulent way.
As they explained, the determination was made after comparing what was declared by each applicant against administrative information, such as pension contributions.
The analysis found that more than 215,000 workers reported between 30% and 40% of their actual compensation and 74,200 wrongly reported that they received no taxable income in July.
However, Internal Revenue workers blamed the design of the process for these errors, taking into account that it was launched within a period of two weeks, with political motivations to stop the withdrawal of 10% from the pension funds.
The president of the Association of Inspectors of the Service, Juan Apablaza, accused little rigor in this crossing of information where, in his opinion, the data collected was not verified.
As he said, the beneficiaries were targeted without “verifying whether or not the employer reported that they had availed themselves of the benefits of the Employment Protection Law. They were told that they had to return the money. Of the 430,000 people who should not have received this bonus, the people who have claimed – which as of October 13 numbered 8,200 people – a figure just over 40% did correspond to the middle class bonus. And there are people who even having the right to the bonus do not want to claim because they are afraid.
For his part, the Director of Internal Taxes, Fernando Barraza placeholder imageHe recalled that the reason for which this group reported wrong income is being identified, with a deadline until November 30, where there will be room for rectification.
Meanwhile, the president of the National Association of Tax Employees, Jose Perez, recognized that those who misused the benefit cannot be released from responsibilities, but asked that the presumption of innocence be respected as well.
Among the possible errors identified by the Internal Revenue Service itself, they considered scenarios such as workers who maintained medical leave during July, who receive the benefit of extreme areas, informal agreements to reduce their salary or suspension, or the income of liquid salary instead of salary. taxable.
