Economy

High electricity rates have become a headache for all Colombians. According to the Dane, in the last 12 months up to November, prices have increased 25.77 percentand the inhabitants of the departments of the Caribbean region are the ones who are paying the most.The Congress of the Republic has certainly questioned that the rates continue to be high despite the fact that the level of the reservoirs used for the generation of hydroelectric power has been at all-time highs in the last 20 years, as happened last November. , when they closed at 87.1 percent, due to the prolonged rainy…

Canada is one of the options that Colombians have to establish themselves professionallyWell, for some time now it has had a migration program with which it offers vacancies in different areas. The goal of the Canadian authorities is to receive almost half a million migrants within the next three years. By 2023 alone, they expect the arrival of more than 460,000 people to fill the required jobs.In this sense, the Public Employment Agency of the SENA constantly publishes vacancies for Colombian careers that will not have a professional. One of the most recent is focused on carpenters; it takes several…

The obligation to re-collect the national consumption tax (low consumption) as of January 1, 2023 for businesses that are exclusively dedicated to spending food and beverages and that are registered in the Simple Taxation Regime (RST) will have an impact on the pockets of millions of Colombians. The reason: restaurateurs will transfer that cost to the prices of the food and beverages they sell to you To the general public.(Also read: It's official: 40% tariff on imported clothing will be permanent in Colombia) He said it Guillermo Gómez París, president of the Colombian Association of the Gastronomic Industry (Acodes), who…

This Tuesday, December 20, the deadline for companies and employers in the country to pay their employees the year-end bonus, also known as the Christmas bonus. (Calculate how much premium you should get). Those who do not make the payment of this benefit or do not do so in a timely manner on the set date, may entail restrictions contained in the law, of up to 5000 Current Minimum Legal Monthly Wages.Employees who do not receive the premium may file a lawsuit before a judge, which could order the payment of the due benefit and even a possible penalty for…