Many of the local industrial, commercial and merchant leaders are asking the government to consider a new tax reform package that takes into account the need to keep local industrial and productive sectors competitive in the world markets. The new program has three main points. They acknowledge that the Dominican tax system must be guided towards a significant increase in the collection of taxes. The second point is the need to be fair, so that no new tax should affect income distribution. The third point is the objective of maintaining a competitive stance for Dominican products and services, by means of transferring taxes from producers and moving them towards income and consumption. These strategies have to be studied by the Office of the Technical Secretary of the Presidency, the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank to ensure that the IMF agreements are observed, especially those that serve the foreign debt that will eat up 9.1% of the GDP.