The gastronomic sector, composed of 130 restaurants throughout the country, has asked the president-elect, Luis Abinader, to implement urgent measures to deal with the serious crisis affecting this activity.
The sector begged the next president “in the interest of saving the country’s food industry” to introduce legislation to Congress to temporarily eliminate the advance of income tax (SRI) for restaurants, and also to reduce its BIS to a rate of 10% “for at least 12 months.”
With the ITBIS measure, they expect the intake to be in the sector. They also called for 50% relief on electricity, water and family waste bills, even temporarily.
“The food industry is in jeopardy, we have its pressing intervention to come out in a more powerful combination of the wonderful challenge we face as a nation,” 130 restaurants said in an article published in the national press.
Another pressing measure requested from Abinader, which will take on August 16, is the amortization of estate taxes for landlords of rented premises to restaurants so that they can transfer their tenants’ rebates for the rental fee in 2020.
They also called for the state to guarantee loans for services at interest rates favourable to the sector.
In the workplace, the gastronomic sector asked the president-elect to grant the possibility of staggering reintegration of the workforce and, additionally, to coordinate monthly COVID-19 testing days for restaurant staff, together with the Ministry of Public health.
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