Équateur: refus d'augmenter TVA pour combattre gangs
Le parlement équatorien, où le parti au pouvoir est minoritaire, a rejeté l'augmentation de 12% à 15% de la TVA proposée par le président Daniel Noboa pour financer la guerre contre les puissants gangs de trafiquants de drogue.
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00:00 The Ecuadorian Parliament, where the party in power is a minority, rejected the increase
00:05 from 12% to 15% of the VAT proposed by President Daniel Noboa to finance the war against the
00:10 powerful gangs of drug traffickers.
00:12 With 83 votes against, out of 137 deputies, the National Assembly opposed Tuesday evening
00:19 in a second reading to this measure aimed at increasing this tax on consumption to 15%
00:24 until 2026, then bringing it back to 13%.
00:27 In mid-January, following an unprecedented wave of violence in the country after the
00:32 escape of a famous drug baron, President Noboa, elected in November for a 18-month mandate,
00:38 had presented this emergency law project to mobilize the resources necessary for the deployment
00:43 of the army in the streets.
00:44 According to the Ministry of Economy, the increase to 15% of the VAT tax should generate
00:52 some $1.3 billion per year in additional revenues to finance this internal armed conflict.
00:57 The VAT is one of the most important sources of currency for Ecuador, with a dollarized
01:03 economy and which also depends heavily on its oil exports.
01:07 After the parliamentary vote, President Noboa opposed his veto to the legislative decision
01:13 and presented a new document in which he sets the VAT at 13% and warns that he can
01:18 modify the rate.
01:19 "In no case can the rate be less than 13% or higher than 15%, except for the exception
01:25 provided by this law," he explained to the Presidency in a statement.
01:29 "Ecuadorians cannot wait another day for the fight against terrorism to be reinforced
01:35 by resources and continue to bear fruit," the Presidency pleaded.
01:39 The Parliament has 30 days to accept the presidential veto or maintain its initial decision.
01:46 The powerful Ecuadorian indigenous organization, CONE, which participated in the uprising
01:52 by overthrowing three presidents between 1997 and 2005, rejected the increase in VAT.
01:58 "VAT is increasing, everything is increasing.
02:01 We cannot allow it to impose this unfair and regressive tax on those who have the least
02:07 to declare the group before the vote."
02:09 Gangrened by drug trafficking, Ecuador experienced an unprecedented explosion of violence in
02:14 the wake of the escape of public enemy number one, alias "Fito", leader of the country's
02:20 most powerful criminal gang.
02:22 The young President Nobua has since decreed a state of emergency and declared war on
02:26 about twenty gangs linked to the Mexican cartel and the Albanian mafia, now considered
02:31 as terrorists and belligerents of an armed conflict.
02:34 The events sparked a brief national unity in a country strongly polarized politically.