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Presidency issues ruling to start tax plan for small business

Small business got a break. Decree 265-19 contains the ruling for the Simplified Tax Regime (Regimen Simplificado de Tributación) that applies to individuals and companies with no more than RD$8.7 million in sales. Individuals and companies that purchase inventory and inputs for RD$40 million or less a year are also included in the tax scheme. …
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Persio Maldonado: Attorney General Office certified tender was bribe-free

Persio Maldonado, the president of the Dominican Society of Daily Newspapers, says that the Attorney General Office presented a certificate to the members of the Official Commission designated by President Danilo Medina to review the Odebrecht-Punta Catalina contract that eventually established no bribes had been paid. At the time the Attorney General Office had received …
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New in Santo Domingo: Plaza Fray Antonio de Montesino

National District Mayor David Collado and Culture Minister Eduardo Selman reopened the plaza dedicated to Fray Antonio de Montesino (1480-1540), the first human rights defender of indigenous people in the Americas. The moving ceremony held on the sea-fronting Malecón plaza remembered Fray Antonio de Montesino for his December 1511 sermon when he denounced abuses of …
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President Medina meets with supporters

President Medina meets with supporters, turns down Fernández proposal On Monday 3 June 2019, President Danilo Medina met for lunch with the five presidential pre-candidates who are his supporters within the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). The presidential pre-candidates present were Francisco Domínguez Brito, Andrés Navarro, Reinaldo Pared Pérez, Radhamés Segura and Temístocles Montás. Also present …