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Although no official announcement has been made, La República affirms that officials of the National Government confirmed that next Saturday, November 21, the third day of the day will be held without VAT in Colombia.
Together with union leaders from the commercial sector, the Government would be detailing the biosecurity conditions that would govern throughout the day.
The prioritization of e-commerce, non-crowds and scheduled deliveries, would be some of the measures adopted to guarantee the health of buyers and merchants.
According to Portafolio, the completion of this third day without VAT is in line with the announcements of President Duque during his speech at the Confecámaras congress, where He suggested bringing Christmas shopping forward to the second week of November.
The aforementioned newspaper states that, in addition, the Colombian Association of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (Acopi) He asked the Government for a 100% tax discount for domestic products and 40% for imported items.
Figures from La República highlight that, during the two previous days without VAT, Colombians made about 1.3 million transactions and that electronic commerce increased by 30%.
Date of the third day without VAT would coincide with the National Strike
Just as the Duque Government would be thinking that the third day of the VAT is on November 21, according to sources confirmed to the aforementioned media, the workers’ centrals have also announced that that day they will march again.
They will do so after November 21, 2019, protests in which there were harsh clashes that claimed even the life of the young Dilan Cruz, and the demonstrations on October 21, 2020.
Education, minimum wage, health emergency decrees and other issues of the pandemic are part of the reasons why they are not only calling for mobilizations, but also a national strike.
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