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  • Tax Revenues Plummet - WA#31
    Tax Revenues Plummet - WA#31

    Largest corporate taxpayers in 2019 and 2020 preview

  • Tax revenues plummeted in the first of 2020 by –19.1% y-o-y to a total of $ 6.8 bn. The decrease equals - $ 1.6 bn. The drop exceeds the official expectation of a decline of - $ 1.0 bn for the full year. (WA#31)

  • The government will pay arrears for up to $500 mn this year to creditors willing to invest the funds in securities. There was a net domestic debt amortization of $53 mn in May; a year before there was also net amortization. So far in the year there is a net disbursement of $525 mn, larger than a year before. (WA#30)

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  • 31.- TAX REVENUES PLUMMET

    In the first half of 2020, tax revenues results disappoint. Several problems were added and amplified: fiscal crisis, lack of competitiveness and lockdowns to combat Covid 19. The result is a drop in collection of ?19.1% y-o-y, or - $ 1.6 bn The precarious fiscal situation allows us to understand why the SRI refuses to accept money substitutes (...

  • 30.- A FLOOD OF GOVERNMENT PAPER

    Ecuador is in the process of restructuring all its debt. To bondholders, it made a proposal which it is optimistic would be approved; voting on the proposal ends on July 31. For this year, it means relief in interest payments. The authorities are also intent on regularizing arrears: they propose paying for them as long as creditors agree to inve...

  • 29.- A BRAVE NEW WORLD

    In the first quarter, and compared to the fourth of 2020, in annualized terms, GDP contracted -8.2%. Sales data for April and May tell a story of a massive contraction of the economy, as be expected given the lockdown. There are too many loose ends to allow for a carefully tuned outlook for 2020. When will Quito come down from its severe case of...