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October 16, 2020 – 8:10 am
Newsroom of El País
The Constitutional Court reported in the last hours that it declared four articles of Legislative Decree 678 of 2020 unenforceable, including two that allowed benefits such as the tax ‘Megapapayazo’ in Cali.
It is a standard issued by the National Government within the framework of the economic, social and ecological emergency decreed by the covid-19 pandemic in the country, which establishes the measures for tax, financial and budgetary management of territorial entities.
Although the court declared the decree law constitutional, it indicated that articles 2, 6, 7 and 9 do not conform to the National Constitution.
Two of these sections, 6 and 7, allowed territorial entities to offer relief for taxpayers. While the first facilitated to governors and mayors “defer the payment of taxes, without interest from territorial entities, up to 12 monthly installments,” the second “established alternatives for the territorial entities to recover the portfolio to allocate these resources to health care.”
It declared unenforceable article 2 that empowered the governors and mayors to carry out additions, modifications, transfers and other operations in budgetary matters.
– Constitutional Court (@CConstitucional) October 16, 2020
It declared article 9 unenforceable, which considered the dissaving of the FONPET for the territorial entities that had reached a coverage equal to or greater than 80% to request these resources to attend the health emergency.
– Constitutional Court (@CConstitucional) October 16, 2020
The foregoing implies that measures such as the ‘Megapapayazo’ tributary of the Mayor’s Office of Cali are dropped. In this regard, the city’s Finance Director, Fulvio Leonardo Soto, confirmed that the articles will not have legal force “and we would not have the possibility of continuing to give them discounts known as the ‘Megapapayazo’ in Santiago de Cali.”
“What is coming now is to wait for the Court to notify this ruling, this notification is given through the publication made by the high court. What came out this Thursday was the statement, which has no legal effects, and we must wait the publication, which acts as a notification, “Soto explained.
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The official then clarified that as long as the publication is not made, which could take up to 15 days, taxpayers can continue making payments with the benefits of the ‘Megapapayazo’.
“Invite them then to come to the service points this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We will have attention in the taxpayer service room, in the different CALI of the city, in the deconcentration points of the communes, in the mobile unit and on the page www.cali.gov.co “, he pointed out.
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