{"id":110270,"date":"2018-03-08T10:07:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=110270"},"modified":"2018-03-08T10:07:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:07:35","slug":"cities-want-government-to-double-their-allotment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/03\/08\/cities-want-government-to-double-their-allotment\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities want government to double their allotment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_110240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110240\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110240\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rafael-Hidalgo-El-Nacional-300x201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafael Hidalgo \/ El Nacional<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Rafael Hidalgo, the president of the Dominican Federation of Municipalities, if the government would increase the subsidies given to the different city governments to 5% of the National Budget and not charge them the 18% ITBIS tax on their purchases, the nation\u2019s cities could improve services to their constituents. City government subsidies are contemplated in Law 176-07.<\/p>\n<p>Hidalgo urged an increase in central government subsidies from the current 2.8% of the National Budget to 5% in addition to the ITBIS tax exemption. He also suggested that the municipalities collect the tax on vehicle registrations (matr\u00edcula), the so-called circulation tax.<\/p>\n<p>Finally Hidalgo explained that the delay in the payment of the February appropriation was due to \u201ccomputer problems,\u201d according to the budget director, Luis Reyes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/elnacional.com.do\/dicen-cabildos-darian-un-mejor-servicio-si-suben-presupuesto\/\" target=\"_blank\">El Nacional<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8 March 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Rafael Hidalgo, the president of the Dominican Federation of Municipalities, if the government would increase the subsidies given to the different city governments to 5% of the National Budget and not charge them the 18% ITBIS tax on their purchases, the nation\u2019s cities could improve services to their constituents. City government subsidies are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/03\/08\/cities-want-government-to-double-their-allotment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}