All tax debtors in Guantánamo are prohibited from entering or leaving the country

All tax debtors in Guantánamo will not be able to leave or return to Cuba regardless of the amount of the debt.

The measure, announced by the Tax Administration Office (ONAT) and the Directorate of Identification, Immigration and Immigration (DIIE) in Guantánamo, modifies a previous agreement that regulated only people with significant debts, above 50 thousand pesos ,reported the local official press.

Since,At the end of September this sanction began to be applied throughout the island, which limits the right to freedom of movement of Cubans, 18 people with debts exceeding 9,400,000 pesos have been prevented from leaving Guantánamo.

Two of those regulated settled their debts and can now leave Cuba, and the entry of a citizen who left the country before being notified of the debt of 1 million 500 thousand pesos was also regulated, and who must pay it in order to be allow entry, add the information.

Last week,The Cuban regime prevented a taxpayer from Sancti Spíritus from leaving the countrywho owed nine million pesos in taxes.

The legality of this measure has been defended by the official press despite the fact that many specialists consider it arbitrary.

This year, the regimeincreased taxes via contribution to Social Security and on personal income to State workers and those paid to the ONAT.

The government argued that it was necessary to update the tax brackets to achieve "greater correspondence with the economic capacity of taxpayers and application of tax principles of justice, equity and progressivity", in contrast to the criteria of various experts, who ask that the system be reformed. tax system to a more efficient model.

The ONAT closed 2022 withmore than a billion pesos in taxpayer debts.