Exclusive-Chile tax reform to focus on individuals, natural resources, finance minister says


FILE PHOTO: Chile's Central Bank President Mario Marcel attends the Congress in Valparaiso, Chile September 4, 2019. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's tax reform, a key plank of new President Gabriel Boric's economic plan, will focus on individuals, natural resources and environmental levies more than corporations, Finance Minister Mario Marcel told Reuters in his first interview in office.

Marcel, speaking hours after being sworn on Friday in along with the rest of Boric's first Cabinet, said the plan was to send a tax reform bill to Congress in the first half of the year, adding it was at the heart of the government's agenda.

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