4961. The Law on the Consolidation of Selective Consumption Taxes, No. 4961, of March 10, 1972, and its amendments, are hereby amended in the following provisions:
- a)In Article 4, instead of "in Annexes 1, 2 and 3," it shall read "in the Annex." b) In Article 11, instead of "included in Annexes 1, 2 and 3," it shall read "indicated in the Annex to this Law." c) Article 12, the text of which shall read:
"Article 12.-The Executive Branch, through the Ministry of Finance, is empowered only to reduce, totally or partially, the ad valórem rates on the goods indicated in Article 4 of this Law. It may only temporarily increase the rates referred to in the annex to this Law, in situations of extreme fiscal urgency, and with the proviso that the increase may not exceed by 20 percentage points the rate corresponding to each good described in the indicated annex; nor may any rate ever exceed one hundred percent (100%). For the purposes of the validity of this temporary increase, 'extreme fiscal urgency' is defined as the projected decrease at the close of the economic period of more than five percent (5%) of the probable revenues estimated in the Budget of the Republic in force at the time of issuing the corresponding executive decree. The methodology to demonstrate the projected decrease in revenues shall be defined in the Regulations to this Law, as a requirement for the validity of the tariff discretion contemplated herein. This temporary tariff adjustment may not be used more than once within the same calendar year. The increase in rates shall be applicable for a maximum period of six months and shall require the ratification, by the Legislative Assembly, of the executive decree establishing the increase. The Assembly shall have a period of one month to rule on the respective decree in a single plenary session, a period that shall begin to run from when said decree is read by the Directorate of the Legislative Assembly. The Directorate shall have a period of six working days from receipt of the decree to read it, as a validity requirement. The silence of the Legislative Assembly on the decree within the indicated term shall be understood as consent. Said decree shall enter into force from the first working day of the month following the date of approval, express or tacit, by the Legislative Assembly. Except as indicated in the preceding paragraphs, to restore or increase the rates referred to in the Annex to this Law, legislative approval shall be required." d) In subsection b) of Article 13, where it says "last day", it shall read "within the first fifteen calendar days"; likewise, where it says "two previous", it shall read "previous".
- e)"Annexes 1, 2 and 3" of the Law on the Consolidation of Selective Consumption Taxes, No. 4961, of March 10, 1972, and its amendments, are modified so that henceforth it shall read "the annex" of the Law on the Consolidation of Selective Consumption Taxes, No. 4961, of March 10, 1972, and its amendments. The texts shall read:
List of goods taxed with the selective consumption tax 22030000 Malt beer.
2204 Wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape must, except that of heading No. 20.09.
2205 Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances.
22060000 Other fermented beverages (for example: cider, perry, mead); mixtures of fermented beverages and mixtures of fermented beverages and non-alcoholic beverages, not elsewhere specified or included.
2208 Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80% vol; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages.
2402 Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes.
2403 Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; "homogenised" or "reconstituted" tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences.
3208 Paints and varnishes based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium; solutions as defined in Note 4 to this Chapter.
3209 Paints and varnishes based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium.
3210 Other paints and varnishes; prepared water pigments of a kind used for finishing leather.
321100000 Prepared driers.
3212 Pigments (including metallic powders and flakes) dispersed in non-aqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints; stamping foils; dyes and other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale.
3214 Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements and other mastics; painters' fillings; non-refractory surfacing preparations for façades, indoor walls, floors, ceilings or the like.
3305 Preparations for use on the hair.
3307 Pre-shave, shaving or after-shave preparations, personal deodorants, bath preparations, depilatories and other perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared room deodorisers, whether or not perfumed or having disinfectant properties.
3401 Soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for use as soap, in the form of bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, whether or not containing soap; paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent.
3402 Organic surface-active agents (other than soap); surface-active preparations, washing preparations (including auxiliary washing preparations) and cleaning preparations, whether or not containing soap, other than those of heading No. 34.01.
4011 New pneumatic tyres, of rubber.
4012 Retreaded or used pneumatic tyres of rubber; solid or cushion tyres, tyre treads and tyre flaps, of rubber.
4013 Inner tubes, of rubber.
8407 Spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines.
8408 Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines).
8415 Air conditioning machines, comprising a motor-driven fan and elements for changing the temperature and humidity, including those machines in which the humidity cannot be separately regulated.
8418 Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps, other than the air conditioning machines of heading No. 8415.
8421 Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids or gases.
8450 Household or laundry-type washing machines, including machines which both wash and dry.
8451 Machinery (other than machines of heading No. 84.50) for washing, cleaning, wringing, drying, ironing, pressing (including fusing presses), bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing, coating or impregnating textile yarns, fabrics or made up textile articles and machines for applying paste to the base fabric or other support used in the manufacture of floor coverings such as linoleum; machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics.
8507 Electric accumulators, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square).
8509 Electromechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor.
8510 Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor.
8511 Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines (for example: ignition magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, sparking plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators (for example: dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines.
8516 Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electrothermic hair-dressing apparatus (for example: hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters); electric smoothing irons; other electrothermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading No. 85.45.
8519 Turntables, record-players, cassette-players and other sound reproducing apparatus, not incorporating a sound recording device.
8520 Magnetic tape recorders and other sound recording apparatus, whether or not incorporating a sound reproducing device.
8521 Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner.
8527 Reception apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy or radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing (cabinet), with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock.
8528 Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus; video monitors and video projectors.
8702 Motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, including the driver.
8703 Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons.
8704 Motor vehicles for the transport of goods.
8706 Chassis fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles of headings No. 87.01 to 87.05.
8707 Bodies (including cabs), for the motor vehicles of headings No. 87.01 to 87.05.
8708 Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings No. 87.01 to 87.05.
8711 Motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles fitted with an auxiliary motor.
8714 Parts and accessories of vehicles of headings No. 87.11 to 87.13.
8716 Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles, not mechanically propelled; parts thereof.
9504 Articles for funfair, table or parlour games, including games operated by motor or mechanism, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling alley equipment.