00:00The Cuban government issued Thursday a resolution that updates and extends tax benefits to those who use and import technologies
00:05associated with renewable energy sources.
00:08The resolution maintains tariff exemptions for the importation of solar portable tech systems, solar heaters, wind turbines, and other equipment
00:15in a context marked by Washington's escalated integration against Havana.
00:18Among the most relevant measures is the exemption from income tax and personal income tax for up to eight years
00:24and for the amount of the investment for those who install renewable systems for self-consumption or deliver energy to
00:30the national power grid.
00:42Individuals engaged in economic activity, such as self-employed workers, farmers, artists, and intellectuals, who are currently taxpayers because they
00:50are subject to income tax, are exempt from the application of personal income tax when they make investments in renewable
00:57energy sources.
01:05Not only those associated with these imports.
01:09In other words, the scope of the resolution goes to those people mentioned who may be subject to exemption from
01:15paying personal income tax, whether they use the energy source for self-consumption.
01:27Or for that of the national electric system, when they have a capacity to do so.
01:32That was established since 2023 in the Resolution 268 of the Ministry of Finance and Prices.
01:40In this context, International Affairs, Analyst and Professor Danny Shaw, who is in Cuba at the moment, sharing conversations with
01:46Telesur his perspective on the current situation the island leaves amid the intensification of the U.S. blockade.
01:54Trump and Marco Rubio have spearheaded the intensification of the economic war and economic isolation of Cuba.
02:04Who does this most hurt, of course, is the 10.5 million people of Cuba.
02:10It's a severe campaign of hunger.
02:15What I see here in Santiago de Cuba and across Cuba is a transportation crisis.
02:21There's no more oil.
02:25Doctors and nurses are working 24-hour shifts.
02:30Teachers can't get to school.
02:32Children can't get to school.
02:33And, of course, this is the very intention of Washington, to create as much misery as they can for the
02:42Cuban masses.
02:44The blueprint coming from Washington is that they want to provoke so much misery and hunger.
02:52They want to bring people into the streets.
02:55They want to provoke any type of strikes or mobilizations so then they can justify their intervention here in Cuba.
03:12And, of course, they want to bring people into Cuba.
03:12They want to bring people into Cuba.
03:12They want to bring people into Cuba.
03:12They want to bring people into Cuba.
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