Liberalism welcomes Marta Lucía Ramírez's proposal to withdraw tax reform

A few hours after Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez admitted that the tax reform or funding bill could be withdrawn, the Liberal Party asked the national government to do so and to send a draft to Congress. more agreed in the new legislature.

On Tuesday, President Iván Duque met at the Casa de Nariño, the former president and sole responsible for liberalism, César Gaviria Trujillo, to discuss the legislative program process. Although no one has made any statement, Gaviria insisted that a Duque that against this law will not accompany the issue of VAT in the family basket, nor in the pensions of Colombians.

Gaviria later met with the Senate and House of Liberalism, where the position was reiterated.

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Senator Fabio Amin said that "tax reform is embarrbading and unwelcome for all Colombians, which is why we respectfully urge President Duque and the Minister of Finance to withdraw the funding law as it has been presented today, in order to reach a broader consensus.In March, during the next legislature, a new project will be presented and concluded with the Country ".

For his part, Senator Mauricio Gomez insisted on the fact "there are points that we do not negotiate, the VAT on the products of the basic family basket and the tax retirees, as well as the VAT on the used housing. think the government has improvised, the president said they did not understand the reform, the government must now see what it does.

What the Vice President said

Marta Lucia Ramirez, speaking at the Conference of the Americas in Miami, badured that "we will carry out the reform, I do not know if this text of this reform will really be at the end of the day what will happen in Congress, we will soon have to withdraw it, all of a sudden we will have to present a new one, the important thing is to get out of the reform that the country needs and for this reform, I am sure we will have enough arguments ".

He insisted that the Duque government is changing the way politics is conducted in the country, which has made it difficult for Congress to deal with certain rules, but they have improved.

He acknowledged that, in the case of the Financing Act, there was an error of form in not having, from the beginning, the opinion of the members of Congress. "Sometimes when those forms are missing, people are suffering and I think it's now our turn to understand that we need to make that change in our relationship with Congress and continue to govern."