Local February 16, 2022 - 1:36 pm

President Luis Abinader will speak tonight

Luis Abinader / External source

The President of the Republic, Luis Abinader, will speak to the country tonight at 8:00 pm.

This was reported by the Director of Government Strategy and Communication, Homero Figueroa, through his Twitter account with the following message: ¨President @LuisAbinader will share a message with the country today, Wednesday at 8:00 pm. We urge citizens and the media to follow the information carefully,¨ he posted.

The speech will be broadcast on the accounts of @luisabinader and @presidenciard on the social networks Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

What topics might be covered?

Eleven days after presenting his second rendering of accounts, many issues are on the table in the arena.

The most recent on how the DGII eyes new taxes on Uber, Netflix, Amazon, and others.

Another topic is the price of fuel the Russia-Ukraine crisis, among other issues.

DGII eyes new taxes on Uber, Netflix, Amazon, and others

The General Directorate of Internal Taxes (DGII) called for suggestions and observations on the latest attempt to place taxes on digital services.

The announcement is made jointly by the Legal Consultancy of the Executive Power and the DGII. They anticipate that interested people can make their comments in the forum from today.

“Regulation for the application of ITBIS to digital services captured in the Dominican Republic and that is provided by foreign providers,” described the joint communication posted on the Twitter account of the tax collection body.

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