With the elections in the Dominican Republic past, tax reform is on the table. Tax reform historically translates into more taxes for those who pay taxes.
But this time around, more people are calling for comprehensive tax reform that means less wasteful spending on behalf of the Dominican government.
Anibal de Castro, executive editor in Diario Libre, says it is responsibility of the Dominican government to act to reduce the size of government. “The Dominican state suffers from elephantiasis,” writes De Castro. He observes there are too many provinces and hundreds of municipalities and districts for a country that is but 50,000 km². The territorial divide has created hundreds of thousands of worthless political patronage jobs.
De Castro calls for a modern Dominican state. He says it is inexplicable that so much time is wasted in relatively simple administrative processes that today are carried out digitally in many countries.
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Diario Libre
3 June 2024