{"id":75109,"date":"2016-06-28T15:09:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=75109"},"modified":"2016-06-28T15:09:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T15:09:27","slug":"dr-has-4th-highest-value-added-tax-in-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/06\/28\/dr-has-4th-highest-value-added-tax-in-region\/","title":{"rendered":"DR has 4th highest value-added tax in region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Dominican Republic has the highest value-added tax (IVA) in Latin America. The comparable ITBIS tax in the Dominican Republic at 18% is only lower than the 22% in Uruguay, 21% in Argentina and 19% in Chile. Recently tax expert Francisco Canahuate has been advocating the government reduce the tax to foster more people paying taxes. The Regional Center for Sustainable Economic Strategies (CREES) is proposing a 10% tax and the expanding of the taxable base to more activities. <\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/crees.org.do\/es\/noticia\/propuestas-pacto-fiscal-reducir-gasto-exenciones-y-deuda-publica<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/crees.org.do\/es\/noticia\/ernesto-selman-considera-pacto-fiscal-debe-contemplar-control-del-gasto-publico<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/crees.org.do\/es\/noticia\/los-intereses-grupales-detras-de-la-reforma-fiscal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic has the highest value-added tax (IVA) in Latin America. The comparable ITBIS tax in the Dominican Republic at 18% is only lower than the 22% in Uruguay, 21% in Argentina and 19% in Chile. Recently tax expert Francisco Canahuate has been advocating the government reduce the tax to foster more people paying &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/06\/28\/dr-has-4th-highest-value-added-tax-in-region\/\" 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":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75109"}],"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=75109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}