I was going to post about something else today because today was an awesome day, but after my meeting with the "Colegio de Psicólogos" I was a little depressed and very angry, at the beginning of this year our institution received government aid to found some projects, these projects were not meant to be lucrative, they were (and still are) to help people, specially people with low income.
Today our president confessed something no one would ever suspect, that the institution had a debt of almost 1 million pesos in taxes from the money the government invested in projects (like 40% of the money the government gave), the only reason the board knew about it was because the accountant told them, because the contracts didn't say anything about this taxes directly, and that it was the better option for the accountant and the institution to tell them before it was too late to know, there is still time to get that money (from sponsorship, donations and some other ways) but it will be hard.
Another bad part was that two projects that I had here will be either postponed or abandoned, but I will write about it later, I already fall sleep for some minutes ago with my computer still on and a noise woke me up :P
Still it was an awesome day.
wait, i dont get it, the government taxes their own grants?
ReplyDeleteyeah, I can't say I follow what is going on with the financial situation either. But that sucks :(
ReplyDeleteLOL, sorry after reading it it doesn't make much sense :P, but yeah, that was the problem mainly, at the beginning of the year the federal government gave money to our institution so our projects could be funded, but apparently it didn't say anything about they having to get 40% of that money back.
ReplyDeleteThat money couldn't be made with how much it is charged to the people, the main reason for this projects was to promote mental health, not make money, and the government was going to help with that, it took money from the health sector budget, which after so much talking finally decided to include the mental health as a need in the health sector and budget.
I suppose that the responsible of that money knew that taxes had to be paid, but never thought that it should be 40% (the budget was like 3 million pesos approximately) of the money that was given.
As I already wrote, no one knew that this money had to be paid in taxes, it didn't say anything in the contract, the accountant realized this and told them before they found out by other means (that being Hacienda).