The government is proposing a tax reform that will increase the VAT (or ITBIS) to 16% and the tax rate to 20%. This information was offered by Eduardo Tejera, Federic Emamm-Zade and Julio Ortega at the Economic Meeting at Hoy. The three form part of the economic advisory team of PLD candidate Leonel Fernandez. Their central theme was that the IMF should not insist on tax reform during a period of political transition. Emam-Zade was particularly emphatic as he insisted that the government lacked transparency and that this was just a new set of taxes they don?t want anybody to know about this because of the political cost.