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In a tense session, the Commission of Constitution, Legislation, Justice and Regulation of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies approved this Thursday, in general, the bill that seeks to apply a one-time tax to the so-called “super rich.”
The motion, presented by the opposition, obtained seven votes in favor, five against and one abstention.
The initiative will now go to the Finance Commission of the Lower House, while the Government made reservation of constitutionality.
The House Constitution committee approved the idea of legislating the “tax on the super rich.”
The Government made a reservation of constitutionality.@Cooperative
– Jorge Espinoza Cuellar (@espinozacuellar) April 1, 2021
The text proposes to apply a tax equivalent to 2.5 percent of the wealth of the richest people in the country, that they hold a equity equal to or greater than 22 million dollars with the aim of providing greater resources to the State to face the deep economic crisis derived from the confinement measures due to the Covid-19 epidemic.
According to its authors, the establishment of this tax could allow the Treasury resources equivalent to 6,500 million dollars.
CONSTITUTIONALITY RESERVE AND DISPUTE BETWEEN UNDER SECRETARY AND DEPUTY JILES
The Undersecretary General of the Presidency, Max pavez (UDI), announced that The Executive will make use of the constitutionality reserve in this initiative.
According to the document that Pavez, via telematics, before the commission, the first offense indicates that “an implicit transitory provision is incorporated or approved (in the Charter) that does not respect the procedure, the form or the quorum that the Constitution requires to reform its chapters and norms “. On the contrary, he said, “the Constitution prohibits implicit, tacit or indirect reforms to its text.”
But also the undersecretary of the Pressec lashed out that “There has never been seen in the history of Chile a constitutional reform that creates a tax, that, in addition, it violates the same Constitution as to the form of establishing the taxes. The Constitution is clear in preventing and prohibiting that the taxes are affected and the parliamentarians should have in sight that “.
It was at that moment that the deputy Pamela jiles (PH) made a point of regulation and challenged Pavez to intervene in place of the Minister of the SegrPres, Juan José Ossa, who participated in the Senate Constitution Commission in the middle of the processing of the reform that postpones the macro-elections to May.
“I ask that, please, the undersecretary not be authorized to participate in this commission, since the minister is not present. If the Government wants to come hard, that at least Minister Ossa comes to show his face and tell the whole country, and not send a second man, who opposes the imposition of a tax on the ‘ super rich. ‘ I am opposed and I ask for my right to stop Max Pavez at this time, to stop speaking because he has no right to do so, I do not authorize him, “the legislator and presidential candidate lashed out.
The words of Jiles activated the demands of the deputies of Chile Vamos, while, from the opposition, congressmen like Matías Walker (DC) criticized the “level of the debate.”
“There has never been seen in the constitutional history of Chile a reform that creates a tax,” says Undersecretary Máximo Pavez.
Deputy Jiles demands that Pavez not intervene in the session because he cannot by regulation since the Minister is not present.@Cooperative
– Jorge Espinoza Cuellar (@espinozacuellar) April 1, 2021
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