Juan Jose Toro Montoya writes for Los Tiempos: Taxes The State is the common house and, as all home, need money to support itself. That is the simplest explanation for the existence of taxes or taxes that are not anything other than the payments we make the inhabitants of the common house to keep it…
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A “perverse” new tax to the dollar in Bolivia
Raising taxes is not an easy task, although many people may think different… in this case current Bolivian government has raised a new one, in an attempt to reduce the dollar currency in our economy, whereas is out of hatred to the USA or to show how ‘strong’ is our currency, the most affected continue…
Bolivias loses $55 million dollars in taxes…
La Razon reports that due to tax evasion and purchase of pirate/illegal software, Bolivia loses around $55 million dollars per year… An estimate provided by Microsoft Bolivia’s general manager, Alberto Mariaca. Although, Mariaca reports, that purchase of legal software is growing, around $100 million dollars (not specified in the article below, the time span for…
Some road blockades suspended temporarily
The trucking industry [heavy load transport association] said on Tuesday afternoon, a recess is in effect, after agreeing with the Government to install a working group to discuss the payment of taxes and fines for the legalization of undocumented trailers or ‘flat’ units. “We determined to make a recess in our pressure measurements while analyzing this…
Taxing the music arts is still confusing
El Deber reports on how the tax structure in Bolivia for Art is still confusing, un-motivating and restraining our culture. This cartoon shows how puzzled look all our forms of Art. When Gonzalo Hermosa, leader of Los Kjarkas [on of the major and most famous folk groups in country; one of their songs became the Lambada and was recently sung…
Beware: road blockades across the nation, next week
There are two possible sources for road blockades next week: road heavy load transport, nationwide; and Oruro particular issues. La Razon reports on the former: This Thursday, high tonnage vehicles blocked the access to the customs area of El Alto, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Oruro and Tarija, to protest for the “imposition” of a valuation table (see…
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