The Listin Diario reports that the government is studying the feasibility of an increase to the ITBIS tax, from the current 12% to 15%. According to a report from the Ministry of Finance, the tax reform is “indispensable” and it lists four possible scenarios. The first would be one in which 15% is applied to everything currently covered by the tax. The second would be to apply the tax to non-educational books and personal-care products. The third option includes these two items, as well as domestic goods and services, non-motorized vehicles, cargo transport, and personal-care services. A fourth option would call for all of the above, as well as processed foods. In a breakdown of the relative impact on each segment of the population, the study indicates that the upper 20% of the people would provide as much as 46.45% of the ITBIS tax, while the bottom 20% would supply only 1.51%, or in the case of the fourth option, 2.08% of the total tax.