” There may be sectors that frown on economic design but my impression is that the main projects, for example, tax reform and labor equity laws will have to be evaluated by the results, ” he said.
“In the first stage of the government we are going to implement a progressive tax reform, in which we aspire to reach a tax pact so that the sectors with greater resources pay more, for example mining companies and even polluting companies, ” he said the future minister of Segpres, Giorgio Jackson, in an interview with the Uruguayan newspaper La Diaria.
The deputy addressed the challenges that will have since March stating that in tax matters ” we want to have a collection policy in accordance with the policy of expansion of spending that we have foreseen in the program. But at the same time we want to have fiscal responsibility, so that debt service does not end up eating our income.”
It also noted that “it may happen that there are sectors that frown on economic design but my impression is that the main projects, for example the tax reform, the labor equity laws (we want to free up work time through a reduction in the working day), the substantial increase in the minimum wage (which will be an important milestone, since there will be no branch negotiation) and the design of a national care system (a demand that emerges from feminism but that today goes much further) they will have to be evaluated by the results and not by the mere intuition of who may be leading the economic team, which is also very diverse.”
Jackson also mentioned the members of the economic team the president-elect, Gabriel Boric, pointed out that “on the one hand, there is a finance minister who was the policy director of the OECD and president of the Central Bank, a guy with a trajectory close to the Concertación and the PS, and in the undersecretariat there is an economist from the Frente Amplio (Claudia Sanhueza) who has been proposing financing systems for free education and pension reform policies from the beginning.”
He added that ” in Economics is Nicolás Grau, who from the student movement and then from the academy was always close to the most progressive agendas, and the undersecretary is Javiera Petersen, who together with Mariana Mazzucato have been working very hard in economics and development. So ethe economic team contains different versions of what we want to do, I am quite confident that we can have a progressive and at the same time responsible economic agenda.”
The next minister said that”my impression is that the work we have ahead of us in these months before presenting the tax reform is precisely that effort of synthesis, assuming that there is a common objective, which is the extension of rights from a reasonable fiscal and tax policy.”
Emphasizing that”we have the guideline that it has to be progressive, that the higher income sectors have to contribute more. We believe that an agenda of progressivism or the left of the twenty-first century is possible with these social advances, without that implying that Chile ceases to be an attractive country for investment and development.
He anticipated that “in tax matters we plan to have territorial distribution of income. We are a country with a lot of territorial diversity and there is a very large debt with respect to regional incomes and we want certain taxes to remain in administration with territorial autonomy”.
