2024-09-18 08:49:39
The 57 Chambers of Commerce operating in the country will be evaluated by the Comptroller General of the Republic, which annually manage public resources of $1.1 billion. Of these, 54% are concentrated in the chambers of Bogotá with 34.3%, Medellín with 13.3% and Cali with 6.2%.
According to the Comptroller General of the Republic, Carlos Hernán Rodríguez Becerra, for the highest control body “it is important to evaluate whether the impact of the investment of public resources that is made annually through these entities is translating into improving the formalization of micro, small, medium and large companies and whether it is contributing to the formalization of employment.”
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During his speech at the 2024 Confecámaras Congress, Comptroller General Rodríguez Becerra recalled that according to the agreement signed between the Government and Confecámaras, within the National Development Plan, the chambers of commerce with the highest collections from the renewal of commercial registration must allocate 30% of their income to financing reindustrialization programs for microenterprises and economic units of the popular economy, which allows them to organize the national resources they manage, seeking to return them to the territory, reinvent themselves and boost the economy.
In the first half of 2025, with the help of the departmental managements, the entity will deliver the results of the performance evaluation to the Chambers of Commerce. He anticipated that in the last two years the entity has monitored the resources of 49 of the 57 existing chambers. “60 control actions have been carried out with 34 fiscal findings for more than $5,020 million and 27 audit benefits worth $558 million,” said the Comptroller General.
The main findings to date have to do with the use of public funds in the acquisition of buildings, without the relevant annotation in the registry of public instruments, the maintenance of assets or payment of property tax on private properties and the use of public funds in activities that have nothing to do with the functions assigned to the Chambers of Commerce.
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