WILLEMSTAD - The Tax Inspection of Curaçao must have imposed at least sixty percent of the income tax assessments for 2023 by July 1, and eighty percent of those for 2022. This is according to an urgent call from Minister of Finance Javier Silvania to Jamila Isenia, head of the Tax Inspection. The action is necessary to address the growing backlog in processing tax returns, which poses a significant risk of fiscal delays.
According to the most recent figures, there has been a significant increase in the number of returns yet to be processed. "The backlog of income tax returns to be processed has increased significantly," Silvania reports in a letter to Isenia. "Without concrete actions, this backlog will continue to rise due to the receipt of new returns."
From 2019 until now, nearly 67 thousand returns have been automatically processed and over seventy thousand manually, but the backlog still amounts to over 22 thousand returns.
The minister now demands that the inspection take the necessary steps before the deadline, using automated administrative processing and mass imposition of assessments, to meet these targets. Additionally, he requires a detailed overview and activity plan to be submitted every Friday, so that progress can be monitored weekly and adjusted if necessary.