Revenue director got $360,000 in bonuses

 LUIS CUCALÓN the former head of the Revenue Directorate (DGI) picked up “bonuses” of $360,000 for collecting taxes during his 5 years in the job.

Cucalón told Ruth Morcillo, fourth anticorruption prosecutor, that in the first four years the annual bonus was $60 000 while he collected a monthly salary of $5,000. In his last year his salary doubled to $10,000 and the bonus climbed to $120,000.
He said the bonus was for the surplus of charges over the previous year, which was 1% of the yearly overage that was distributed among all the employees of the DGI, depending on their salary.level.
His pay had doubled in April 2013, when the DGI was converted into the National Revenue Authority (ANIP) and  he would have been there for 10 years  had it not been for the Supreme Court  declaring the  the law that created tANIP unconstitutional.
Cucalón told the prosecutor that in August 2014 he sent an emissary to President Juan Carlos Varela to know if he should stay in office and the answer, he said, was that Varela had no problems.
But  Finance Minister Dulcidio De La Guardia said it was better to resign. “That’s what I did,” he said