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Consultoría para la Elaboración del Segundo Estudio Nacional de<br />

Conciliación de la Iniciativa de Transparencia para las Industrias<br />

Extractivas (ITIE) en el Perú (2008 – 2010) (continuación)<br />

Any intervention limited in time implying the application of public resource to expand, improve and upgrade the<br />

capacity to produce goods or provide services, the benefits of which are independent from those of other projects<br />

Public Treasury<br />

The public assets managed by the Central Government. Revenues of the Public Treasury proceed from the<br />

application of taxes, charges, contributions, property revenues, fines and other penalties, etc. Also known as the<br />

Exchequer.<br />

Refinery<br />

Industrial facility where Oil, natural gasolines or other hydrocarbon sources are converted to Liquid Fuel. May<br />

include diverse products such as Lubricants, Asphalt, Tar, solvents, etc.<br />

Regional Government<br />

The Temporary Regional Administration Councils (Consejos Transitorios de Administración Regional)<br />

(Departmental CTARs according to Law No. 26922). CTARs are politically, economically and administratively<br />

autonomous in matters under their competence and are in charge, within their jurisdiction, of coordinating and<br />

implementing regional socio-economic plans, as well as of managing activities and services to be performed by<br />

the government according to law. Assets and Revenues owned by the Regions are established by law. Regions<br />

provide support to Local Governments but do not substitute them or duplicate their actions or competence.<br />

Resident Person<br />

Any person, whether an individual or legal entity, registered in the tax registers of the country where such person<br />

operates.<br />

Revenue collection<br />

The process of collecting revenues, whereby the government receives public resources from taxes, without<br />

generating any obligation in return.<br />

Royalty<br />

A monetary amount that a concession holder or operator of a prospecting operation or a mining property pays at<br />

regular intervals to the landowner. Usually based on a certain amount per tonne or a percentage of the total<br />

production or the earnings. Also, a fee paid for the right to use a proprietary process.<br />

Single Taxpayer Registry (Registro Único de Contribuyentes or RUC)<br />

The <strong>National</strong> Tax Administration Superintendence Register containing information on every individual or legal<br />

entity, undivided estate, de facto partnership or collective entity, whether <strong>Peru</strong>vian or foreign and whether or not<br />

residing in <strong>Peru</strong> that, under applicable laws is a taxpayer and/or liable for taxes managed by SUNAT.<br />

SUNAT<br />

The <strong>National</strong> Tax Administration Superintendence is a decentralised Public Entity of the Economy and Finance<br />

Sector organised as a Public Law legal entity, with its own assets and financial, administrative, functional and<br />

technical autonomy, whose role is to manage, monitor and collect internal revenue taxes and levies (including<br />

Income Tax and mining royalties) other than municipal taxes, and perform the same duties in connection with<br />

contributions to the <strong>Peru</strong>vian Social Security (ESSALUD) and the Pension Standardising Office (ONP)<br />

Consultoría para la Comisión Multisectorial Permanente de la ITIE Perú<br />

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