In the year 2022 some of the richest men in Ecuador paid less Income Tax (IR) compared to several previous periods. But there are things that are more surprising: Isabel Noboa Pontón pays, for example, 10 times less than Ángelo Caputi Oyague, who manages, but does not own, Banco Guayaquil.
She is the main shareholder of Nobis Holding. It generates 5,000 jobs, has five business units (agribusiness, real estate, exports, shopping centers, and mass consumption), 60 active projects, and the year that ended it paid just $31,357 in Income Tax (IR). Ángelo Caputi, executive president of the Guayaquil bank, $210,562.
The businesswoman also pays less than the Vanoni shrimpers, than the Wong bananas. She pays less than her brother Álvaro and others who have less wealth than the owner of the Valdez mill, Mall del Sol, Pronobis.
Characters such as Euclides, Franklin and Darwin Palacios and Marianela Ubilla appear in the top 5 of banana exports, but their IR seems little for the volume of business they handle. Palacios and his sons are owners of Corporación Palmar (banana exporter, producer of plastic bags, spray fumigation). Ubilla owns Agzulasa
The President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso Mendoza, according to SRI records, dropped from more than $900,000 paid in IR in 2021 to only $4,992 in 2022.
| Businessmen | 2022 | 2021 |
| Fidel Egas | does not present | 5,252,309.33 |
| Alvaro Noboa Ponton | 1,376,476.22 | 1,220,482.54 |
| Johny Czarninski Bair | does not present | 770,779.44 |
| William Lasso | 4,992.49 | 900,923.42 |
| Luis Bakker Guerra | No presenta | 722,965.84 |
| Carlos Cueva González | 443,603.45 | 166,456.61 |
| Vicente Wong Naranjo | 158,759.79 | 151,963.49 |
| Rafael Wong Naranjo | 158,759.79 | 151,448.68 |
| Roberto Aguirre Román | 132,808.41 | 169,468.25 |
| Owen Durán Ballén | 77,237.68 | 245,807.41 |
| Leonardo Vanoni Darquea | 95,275.78 | 41,018.13 |
| Sandro Coglitore Castillo | 95,275.79 | 40,789.43 |
| Francisco Xavier Vanoni Darquea | 87,313.92 | 37,113.41 |
| Aldo José Vanoni Darquea | 85,232.51 | 37,092.73 |
| Carlos Vanoni Darquea | 79,576.50 | 13,717.93 |
| Juan Pablo Eljuri Vintimilla | 33,672.00 | 42,434.23 |
| Isabel Noboa Pontón | 31,357.29 | 21,176.99 |
| María Vanoni Darquea | 20,030.15 | 5,214.67 |
| Euclides Palacios Placios | 1,858.28 | 82,799.05 |
| Roque Sevilla Llarrea | No presenta | 80,861.24 |
| Sandra Monroy Moreno | No presenta | 80,731.82 |
| Darwin Palacios Márquez | 1,397.98 | 38,763.25 |
| Franklin Palacios Márquez | 26,042.36 | 45,243.82 |
| Marianela Ubilla Mendoza | 7,432.60 | 13,602.40 |
| Santiago Salem Barakat | No presenta | 14,910.88 |
| Juan Carlos Crespo Moreno | 8,659.97 | 36,882.25 |
| Michel Deller Klein | 32,577.32 | 1,454,908.07 |
| Angelo Caputi | 210,562.71 | 140,697.48 |
Juan Pablo Eljuri Vintimilla es accionista y presidente del Grupo Eljuri, un conglomerado propietario y accionista de al menos 180 empresas del sector industrial, comercial, turístico, inmobiliario, y automotriz del país. De marcas como Skoda, Chevrolet, Kia, Honda, Ford y Volkswagen. Empresas como Neohyundai. Él pagó apenas 33.672 dólares en IR.
En cambio, con menos empresas, entre ellas Reybanpac, Fertisa y Reyleche, Rafael y Vicente Wong Naranjo tributaron 158.759 dólares cada uno, más que Santiago Salem, de Santa Priscila, la compañía camaronera más importante del Ecuador; Michel Deller Klein; o Juan Carlos Vanoni, de Omarsa
The SRI reported that Guillermo Lasso Mendoza paid $4,992 in 2022. Nothing, compared to Álvaro Noboa’s IR: $1,376,476.22. Or the 443,603.45 of Carlos Cueva González, from Difare. Or the $132,808.41 from Roberto Aguirre Román, from Negocios Industriales Real, who also owns a large tuna fleet.
