The tax modernization project that the government presented last week has several authors: the president of the Republic, Sebastián Piñera, and the finance minister, Felipe Larraín, are the political faces after the initiative; but there are also the technicians who "crafted" the initiative behind the scenes, with calculator and Tax Code in hand.

Two of these brains are the Coordinators of Modernization and Tax Policy, Carolina Fuensalida (CF) and Manuel Alcalde (MA), respectively. Both lawyers of the Catholic University, with graduate degrees in the United States, recognize the fatigue of more than five months of work - in some days, until six in the morning -, which is compensated by the "satisfaction" of a "rigorous work". , of excellence, meticulous "carried out jointly by the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (SII).

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