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Disparate reactions in experts generated the sayings of the director of the Internal Revenue Service (SII), Fernando Barraza placeholder image, who defended the agency’s decision to lower taxes on the group Penta for expenses incurred in his defense during the trial for tax fraud and tax crime.
The decision of the SiII to allow a reduction of $ 1,400 million caused a surprise in public opinion. In conversation with the newspaper La Tercera, the director Fernando Barraza commented that, despite the fact that the decision seems counterintuitive, is attached to the law since every taxpayer has the right to reduce expenses in judicial or administrative defense.
“Every taxpayer has the right to legal defense, and as a taxpayer, therefore, they also have the right to reduce the expense they incur in that defense. When we say all taxpayers we mean that they are independent of their size, condition or activity. That is a very relevant principle that is suddenly not understood and it seems that here is a privilegeThat there is an exception, but no, what there is is the recognition of defense spending to which everyone is entitled, “he said.
Barraza’s sayings generated diverse reactions in the experts. The lawyer Álvaro Moraga, leading partner in the tax area of the Moraga y Compañía law firm, defended the agency’s actions.
Along the same lines, the economist and professor at the University of Chile, Pablo Barberis, understood the irritation that the reduction in citizenship can generate, but pointed out that the SII must ensure that the law is applied and not comment on it.
For his part, Mauricio Daza, who was a plaintiff lawyer in the Penta case, harshly criticized the SII, described Fernando Barraza as a political operator and commented that the company was financing the defenses of its controllers and not the interests of the company.
Regarding the controversy, Fernando Barraza added in the interview that “if there is legislation that we do not like, let’s change the law, but that is not the responsibility of the Service.”
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