Declaration of Economic Emergency

2025-12-23T13:38:00
Colombia
The measures adopted by the Government will have a significant economic impact on some taxpayers if they pass the review of the Constitutional Court
Declaration of Economic Emergency
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December 23, 2025

Key Aspects

  • Temporary tax measures and strict constitutional control. 
  • Temporary tax of 1% on the extraction, sale, and export of crude oil and coal, with a threshold of 50,000 UVT.
  • Transitional Wealth Tax Regime 2026: includes legal entities, bases, exclusions and rates.
  • VAT on games of chance operated only on the internet; generating event: deposits; also non-resident responsible.
  • GMF temporarily rises to 5 per thousand in 2026; adjustments in taxes on the consumption of liquor and tobacco.
  • High probability of unenforceability: there is no supervening event; there are ordinary alternatives that are less burdensome.
  • Refund of the taxes collected, once the unenforceability of the decrees is determined, would depend on what the Court indicates.
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December 23, 2025