Daily Monitor
Thursday April 29 2021
Demonstrators clash with the police during a demonstration against the tax reform proposed by the Colombian President Ivan Duque, in Bogota, on April 28, 2021. PHOTO/AFP
Summary
President Ivan Duque's government wants wants to impose a tax on basic services in upper-middle class areas and on funerals.
Workers' unions, teachers, civil organizations, indigenous people and other sectors reject the project that is underway in Congress, considering that it punishes the middle class and is inappropriate in the midst of the crisis unleashed by the pandemic.
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Tens of thousands of people marched in Colombia Wednesday against a proposed tax reform they say will leave them poorer as the country battles its deadliest phase yet of the coronavirus pandemic.