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Power of March 30, 2001, […] the company failed to pay to the SUNAT both the debt
contracted for the […] [illegal] administration of the State and of the [brothers] Winter, as
well as also the part of the running debt generated during the new administration, because
the funds did not exist in the company.” Regarding this point, the representatives pointed
out that “respecting the [tax] period 2001-2003, [the State] must abstain from charging
moratorium interest and fines connected with the tax debt […], each time that said debt
could not be paid timely as a direct consequence of the lack of fulfillment on the part of the
State.”
32.
That specifically in relation to the resolution of the Constitutional Tribunal of Peru,
Mr. Ivcher indicated that “the General Law of Arbitration then current did not permit the
review of the merits of the controversy at the judicial headquarters [, in a way that at that
moment] he could not challenge the arbitral award.” Also, the representatives highlighted
that “of the 10 magistrate judges that heard this action at distinct instances, only 3 have
declared a decision regarding the merits of the matter (1 Founded, 1 Unfounded [and] 1
Null), while 7 have resolved for reasons of form to declare it Inadmissible, every time that
being understood as the only way that it could be resolved is if the collection of the taxes in
question damaged or breached that ordered in the [eighth] operative paragraph of the
[J]udgment […] of the Inter-American Court.” Therefore, the representatives concluded
that “both the Arbitral Tribunal as well as the Constitutional Tribunal [have] referr[ed] to
formal aspects of the controversy without entering into a discussion of the merits, which
evidences that the [P]eruvian State does not have the capacity to execute the [J]udgment
of the [Inter-American Court] in its [eighth] operative paragraph.” The representatives
indicated that “[i]t is unacceptable that on one hand the State tries to distinguish between
a natural person and a legal entity in order to deny the right of the execution of the
judgment regarding the replacement of the previous state of divestment […], and on the
other, to deny this distinction in order to affirm that the tax debts are charged
independently of the natural persons that make up the legal entity, even though this had
been usurped by the State itself.”
33.
That the Commission “consider[ed] it positive that the State had fulfilled the
payment of the sum established in the […] arbitral award [respecting] the compensation of
dividends and pending payments in favor of Mr. Ivcher.”
34.
That also, the Commission “manifest[ed] its special worry for the fact that the
Peruvian State tried to collect the taxes generated during the time in that [the company]
was in the hands of the Winters and of the State,” so that this “openly contradicts the spirit
of the Judgment of the Court respecting the violation of the right of property and of
freedom of expression of the harmed party.” Also, the Commission pointed out that “the
express reference that the Court made to facilitate the ‘conditions’ of use and enjoyment of
the rights of Mr. Ivcher as a majority shareholder implies that these rights be returned to
the mentioned company without demanding the payment for the taxes that had been
generated during the per[i]od that it was under the control of the Peruvian State itself and
of the minority shareholders.” “If the company, at this moment, was up to date with the
payment of the taxes, [t]his must be the condition in that it was returned to Mr. Ivcher
Bronstein, having therefore paid any tax debts that had been generated during [said]
period.” Also, the Commission considered that it must “identify if the rejection of the period
of tax release was for a lack of jurisdiction of the Arbitral Tribunal, or was for a lack of
merit in the substance[, because] if it was the first, […] such res judicata did not exist that
the State is alleging about the subject matter of the tax release, [so that] it h[ad] not been
resolved regarding the substance.” (Therefore, the Commission requested the Court that “it