In today’s editorial, Hoy newspaper urges that the government put into place controls to avoid administrative corruption. The newspaper says that the new round of cases of corruption in government that are being ventilated by the judiciary and by the the press can only occur because government revenues are handled with "impudence, and without accounting controls that oblige leaving a written track of each transaction, clearly identifying who was responsible of each and that auditing procedures verify the authenticity of each document in the moment it is issued." "In the accounting of the State there are structural problems that allow that deliberate actions of fraudulent kind be disguised as carelessness or mere irregularities," writes Hoy newspaper. "It is time that there be more rigorous rules regarding the use of the budgetary surplus, that the accounts labeled as ‘other expenditures’ or ‘differed expenditures’ clearly refer to the use given to these funds," says the editorial writer. Newspapers will soon be penalized by a 12% tax on advertising, which is even more frustrating given the apparent lack of control of the use of the funds that will be generated by the new taxes. "With the cases now in Justice the culprits or innocents can be detected, but this effort will have been useless if the accounting weaknesses of the state continues to encourage fraud, above all by people for whom the word scruples is not in their vocabulary," concludes the newspaper.
