{"id":238578,"date":"2025-07-14T08:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=238578"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:36:51","slug":"tax-collections-continue-strong-exceeding-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/07\/14\/tax-collections-continue-strong-exceeding-projections\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax collections continue strong, exceeding projections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Impuestos-Internos-Presidencia-1024x573.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-238583\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Impuestos-Internos-Presidencia-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Impuestos-Internos-Presidencia-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Impuestos-Internos-Presidencia-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Impuestos-Internos-Presidencia-1536x860.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Impuestos-Internos-Presidencia-2048x1146.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tax Agency (DGII) has announced robust tax collections for the first half of 2025, significantly exceeding its targets and demonstrating a healthy economic outlook for the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of the close of the first semester, the DGII reported accumulated collections of RD$472.17 billion, achieving 101.3% of its projected goal. This figure represents an increase of RD$40.23 billion compared to the same period last year, marking a 9.3% year-over-year growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DGII attributes this strong performance to a consolidating economy, with clear signs of dynamism in key sectors, increased formalization of productive activities, and notable advancements in voluntary tax compliance among taxpayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luis Valdez Veras, the director general of the DGII, emphasized the collaborative effort behind these positive results. &#8220;These results are evidence of the joint effort between the DGII and Dominican taxpayers,&#8221; Valdez Veras stated. &#8220;We are focused on building a more efficient, fair, and modern tax system that allows for the country&#8217;s development.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June alone saw the DGII collect RD$70.57 billion, surpassing the month&#8217;s projection by RD$1.50 billion, achieving 102.2% compliance. This represents an RD$8.81 billion increase compared to June 2024, a 14.3% year-over-year rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even after excluding extraordinary income \u2013 such as capital gains, large taxpayer income, or specific regularizations \u2013 monthly growth remained strong at 13.1%. This indicates a sustained and structural trend in recurrent revenue streams, underscoring the stability of the country&#8217;s tax base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several key tax categories contributed to the impressive overall performance:<br>\u2022 ITBIS (Sales Tax): Analysis of May&#8217;s operations, declared in June, showed a 6.7% year-over-year increase in total sales and a 4.4% rise in taxable sales. This growth in taxable sales was primarily driven by the commerce sector (excluding fuel and vehicles) with a 4.5% increase, hotels, bars, and restaurants at 10.3%, and the beverage manufacturing industry with 8.0%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Corporate Income Tax (ISR Empresas y Activos): Corporate income tax collections saw a significant 17.0% year-over-year increase, representing an absolute rise of RD$1.99 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Individual Income Tax (Impuesto sobre las Personas F\u00edsicas): This category&#8217;s growth was largely propelled by the Income Tax on Salaried Employees, which grew by 16.5%, adding RD$1.09 billion compared to June 2024. This is attributed to an 8.7% increase in the number of taxed employees and an 11.4% rise in the amount withheld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Selective Fuel Taxes (Impuestos Selectivos a los Combustibles): The Specific Tax on fuels experienced a 2.6% increase, adding RD$110.2 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/noticias\/dgii-reporta-recaudacion-de-rd-472000-millones-en-primer-semestre-de-2025\">Presidency <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 July 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tax Agency (DGII) has announced robust tax collections for the first half of 2025, significantly exceeding its targets and demonstrating a healthy economic outlook for the nation. As of the close of the first semester, the DGII reported accumulated collections of RD$472.17 billion, achieving 101.3% of its projected goal. This figure represents an increase &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/07\/14\/tax-collections-continue-strong-exceeding-projections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238578"}],"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=238578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238584,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238578\/revisions\/238584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}