Ramon Perez Figuereo, president of the CNTU has announced that today, Thursday 8 November, several transport organizations from Santo Domingo will gather in front of the National Congress to urge the Chamber of Deputies not to approve the new Tax Reform bill.
He said that the CNTU had recently had a meeting with President Danilo Medina and his economic team and asked them to change the Hydrocarbon Law, revise the contracts with Barrick Gold and the generating companies, not to increase ITBIS or electricity tariffs, but no agreements were reached.
The CNTU had also proposed to eliminate subsidies on private businesses and public transport and to create a genuine transport policy that is totally transparent.
Transport unions are one of the groups that stand to gain most from the tax reform bill sent by the Medina administration to Congress. The government authorized a RD$2 charge on fuel purchases to benefit fleet purchase plans for authorized transport unions.
[At the deadline for publishing today’s DR1 digest, the Chamber of Deputies passed the tax reform bill.]