Ordinance TAXES ON BUSINESS ACTIVITIES OF INDUSTRY, TRADE, SERVICES OR SIMILAR KIND (IAE) force, provides for punitive to illicit tax consisting SHUTDOWNS OF ESTABLISHMENTS; penalty or sanction it in most cases is disproportionate to the fault which is intended to punish, since the penalty must respond in a rational and proportionate to the evil entity caused by the wrongful act.
is important to note that contrary to the assumptions embodied in the Organic Tax Code (TOC), this ordinance contains sixteen (16) cases of Closures for Illicit Formal, Plus One (1) by Illicit Material.
However, for the purpose of illustrating the consecration of the indefinite closure in the IAE, I will discuss Article 107 of the Ordinance: " who pay late or later, established in this ordinance shall be punished by a fine tribute to one percent (1%) of those and with temporary closure of three (3) business days or until it meets its fiscal (...) ".
In this regard, we must emphasize that the closure well regulated, is indefinite, because it would not be ordered for a specified number of days, but the lifting of the penalty would be subject to compliance with an obligation; Ordinance creates a situation of legal insecurity and uncertainty, as it seeks to punish " temporary closure ", having paid late, that means, that if a taxpayer pays the council tax, a day after the deadline established by Ordinance, shall be subject" indefinitely "to at any time before an audit or verification, the facility will be closed, because this fact not be remedied, and not the taxpayer be certain of the fate of its fiscal situation facing the City, is always on the lookout to be closed, placing him in a sort of legal limbo, an attack against the principle of legal certainty that should characterize all its own administrative management of a genuine rule of law.
This situation is unacceptable, as the closing sentence is one of the most serious penalties you may get a legal entity, and therefore must be limited to very specific and perfectly lapses defined in the law.
In my opinion, this provision violates the right economic freedom that is embodied, as the extent of closure of establishment for an indefinite period and suspension economic activity would prevent the trader will exercise their business in the Municipality HERES without a valid legal justification, since the closure of his establishment, for an apparently indefinite period, in this case is subject to the payment of alleged debts.
Undoubtedly, this provision violates the right to property enshrined in Article 115 of the Constitution, since it would subtracting an amount of money the assets of the plaintiff that, perhaps, not underpaid.
This is even recognized by the national legislature to dictate the COT, which certainly provides for the punishment for certain offenses closing, but restricted to a maximum of days (usually very brief). To that end, I refer to my readers, by way of illustration, the reading of Articles 101 and 102 of the COT, which provide closures of no more than five (5) and three (3) days, respectively (...)