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The Labor Commission of the Lower House advanced in voting on the Government’s project for a second retirement of pension savings, and included a mandatory mechanism for debtors of maintenance pensions, but the debate over the payment of taxes is still pending.
The instance approved the project first in general, by 12 votes in favor and only one against, by the official Guillermo Ramírez (UDI), who questioned that it is “bad public policy, wherever it comes from, be it from the opposition or the government.”
“For the same reason, consequently I reject the idea of legislating (the initiative), which the only grace it has is that it is immensely popular. I am aware that it is a vote that could cost me reelection, but I am not here simply to do what is most popular, “argued the union deputy.
The Chamber’s Labor Commission introduced to the Government project on the second 10%, a form of forced withdrawal for the payment of alimony, by approving an indication unanimously. In the room it will require 89 votes.@Cooperative
– Jorge Espinoza Cuellar (@espinozacuellar) December 2, 2020
In the vote in particular, the parliamentarians unanimously approved an indication promoted by deputy Vlado Mirosevic (PL) that adds a forced withdrawal mechanism for alimony debtors, an idea that he had already proposed through a project linked to the reform of the opposition for retirement insurance.
It’s about the surrogacyIn other words, in the event that the man is the debtor, the courts can order the payment of the withdrawal for the benefit of the children he has with a woman, who then subrogates the right to request the retirement of her former partner.
“If the alimony debtor does not want to pay for good, and does not want to make a voluntary withdrawal, we enable the judge by then making a forced withdrawal through surrogacy, “said Mirosevic.
The Executive’s project, meanwhile, only contemplates the withholding of funds from food debtors, as it was in the first withdrawal; that fucking was dismissed by the instance.
Even yesterday, on the same commission, the Minister of Labor, María José Zaldívar, had closed the door to include a forced retirement, stating that with such a measure, “the entire society will finance”, subsidiarily, the irresponsibility of the parents.
Your peer from Hacienda, Ignacio Briones, questioned the indication, whose idea had been discussed during the processing of the bill in the Senate, where the commission secretary declared it inadmissible on the grounds that it addresses social security.
For this reason, the deputies now requested the pronouncement of the Secretary of the Labor Commission, Pedro Muga, who said he did not agree with the interpretation of the Upper House and declared that it was not related to social security. Likewise, it was established that the indication requires a quorum of 89 votes in the Chamber of the Lower House, four sevenths.
We have just approved in the Labor Committee our indication of #Forced Withdrawal for the #DaddyHeart. Despite government opposition, we achieved UNANIMITY! pic.twitter.com/zpTOg6tivs
– Vlado Mirosevic Verdugo (@vladomirosevic) December 2, 2020
THE GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWN URGENCY TO GIVE TIME TO AGREEMENTS
The beginning of the session this Tuesday was marked by the expositions of opposition deputies expressing their willingness to postpone the vote, called for today, as long as the Government promised to talk. in pursuit of a agreement on payment of taxes.
And also “if there is a real provision, especially with the issue of the payment term, because we would be delaying the vote without being certain that we will be able to count on this second withdrawal before the end of the year,” the president of the Commission, Deputy Gael Yeomans (Social Convergence).
In the ruling party, in turn, RN Fran Sauerbaum asked the Executive to remove the urgency of immediate discussion to the initiative, in order to have more time to talk about it.
Then Minister Briones pointed out that if the project were to be processed so that it could be published on Friday, December 11, the withdrawal could be completed before Christmas, so he said that there is room to continue debating. Later, the head of the Segpres, Cristián Monckeberg, expressed the Government’s willingness to withdraw said urgency, which was specified during the session.
If the procedure is fulfilled on the indicated date, “the first payments could be occurring before Christmas, in the conversations we have had, and taking into account the first experience, this is so; the only thing that I indicate is that we have some margin to discuss“said the head of the fiscal wallet.
INDICATION ABOUT THE REFUND
Before voting began, the secretary of the commission surprisingly announced that the Executive entered a new package of instructions, one of them on the refund of the amounts that are withdrawn, whose replacement Briones had announced yesterday, apart from the indications initially presented.
That caused annoyance in some deputies, such as Yeomans herself, who considered “it seems to me somewhat unprecedented that they have not even notified us that other indications were going to be entered; it puts us in a complex situation because we had agreed to a dialogue, because we are having a debate in another mood “.
The deputy Alejandra Sepúlveda (FRVS), in turn, Sepúlveda, with obvious annoyance, urged to vote on the indications so that the Executive “feels the door slam in the face”; finally that vote was postponed to this Wednesday.
# Second Withdrawal10xciento 📰 | Labor generally approves a project to withdraw 10% of the pension funds. https://t.co/k2AcfDH0xA
– Deputies and Deputies of Chile (@Camara_cl) December 2, 2020
TAX TALKS WILL CONTINUE
The session ended its work for today and will continue voting on the project this Wednesday afternoon, from 3:30 p.m.
Given this, it is expected that the Government talk with deputies of the Labor and Finance commissions about the payment of taxes for the withdrawal of funds, because parliamentarians ask for exceptions to be established at least with a focus on the middle class.
Specifically, in his project the Executive does not exempt anyone for what the Income Tax Law applies, according to which workers must pay taxes according to their income level – from the 688 thousand pesos of annual average, currently-; Unlike the first withdrawal and the opposition reform for a second, which exempts them all.
Just as there are deputies who ask to exempt everyone, the RD Natalia Castillo raised yesterday that those who rent for less than 4.5 million pesos; while RN Francisco Eguiguren pointed to the threshold of 2.5 million.
For its part, a threshold of 1.5 million of pesos of rent proposed yesterday the pro-government deputy Frank Sauerbaum (RN), according to said, in representation of several parliamentarians of Chile Vamos, including Evópoli -party to which Briones belongs-.
Even today he stressed that “Since yesterday, we have been talking with different sectors, from Chile Vamos and the opposition, and we have a relative agreement in tax terms”, at least on exempting the first tranches that must be taxed.
The Chamber of the Lower House keeps the session scheduled for Thursday morning in order to vote on both the Government’s project and the report of the mixed commission on the reform of opposition deputies, but said instance has not yet been convened.
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