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Nov 22, 2014 11:32
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Spanish term

IVA RETENIDO PPA

Spanish to English Bus/Financial Business/Commerce (general) Taxes, fees and duties, levies etc.
From the same list again. Apparently PPA = pequeños productores agricolas. What I need to know is whether we have a neat acronym established for it in English. I'm reluctant to call it SAP, for reasons that should be obvious.

"...
IVA RETENIDO GANADO
IVA RETENIDO HIDROBIÓLOGICAS
IVA RETENIDO LEGUMBRES
IVA RETENIDO MADERA
IVA RETENIDO ORO
IVA RETENIDO PPA
IVA RETENIDO SILVESTRES
IVA retenido total"

Discussion

neilmac (asker) Nov 26, 2014:
Thanks everyone ... for helping out on this one. You never know where you are with abbreviations...
neilmac (asker) Nov 26, 2014:
Turns out it's English It was Prompt Payment Act (PPA). "The Prompt Payment Act requires State agencies to pay properly submitted, undisputed invoices within 45 calendar days ...
José Patrício Nov 23, 2014:
OK, neilmac
neilmac (asker) Nov 22, 2014:
Why the acronym? As these are going into SW strings, the client usually doesn't want them any longer than the original, which is why I'm looking for acronyms. I'll ask them about it on Monday.
AllegroTrans Nov 22, 2014:
Agree with Peter You should post this as an answer
philgoddard Nov 22, 2014:
Agree with Peter You don't need to use an acronym just because the Spanish does. You should spell it out in full.
peter jackson Nov 22, 2014:
You could call them "small agricultural businesses", which seems quite common and thus avoid the problem.

Proposed translations

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small agricultrual business

You could call them "small agricultural businesses", which seems quite common and thus avoid the problem.

A small agricultural business is defined as one having an Estimated Value of Agricultural Operations (EVAO) of between $22,500 and $400,000. Businesses
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VAT COLLECTED AG SME

I'm not 100% sure about "collected" for "retenido" because I'm not sure whether it refers to collected VAT that the firms have already transferred to the government, or that they have collected it and have not yet transferred it to the government.

AG - for agricultural
SME - for "small and medium enterprise".

"SME" isn't perfect for "PPA" because it seems like it includes larger producers (the "medium-sized" ones).

However, I would separate between "smallholders" who may live very close to subsistence and probably produce very little for the market, and people who are truly running a business with accounting analysis, cost-benefit strategizing, etc. going on, and in this case I think it becomes appropriate to group together these "pequeños productores agricolas" as "agricultural small and medium enterprises" (AG SME). The problem is one of formal classification, because SMEs often receive specific tax treatment, so it may not be correct to group them together. For example, there is often a VAT threshold (in Canada, a small producer pays no VAT under $30,000 annual revenues).

Anyways, I propose this as a likely suggestion and highlight some issues which need to be considered to be sure about the correct answer.
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Reference comments

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Reference:

Open Government Plan VAT Retention

Safeguard Welcomes Government's Plans to Reduce VAT - http://www.bing.com/search?q=VAT for Open Government Plan&pc...
Value-Added Tax (VAT) on the Retention of Fines 23 August 2013 - http://www.bing.com/search?q=VAT n (Value Added Tax) retenti...
2012 Open Government Plan Update. In April of 2010, our Open Government Task Force assembled the Department's first comprehensive Open Government Plan. - http://www.bing.com/search?q=government plan&pc=cosp&ptag=AC...
PPA - Plano Pluri Anual , é feito no setor público, nas três esferas de governo. Minicipal, Estadual e Federal. Depois de elaborado por técnicos da área econômica, é aprovado nas câmaras municipais, assembléias legislativas e câmara dos deputados. OK! - https://br.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200611210328...
Basicamente o PPA tem vigência de 4 anos e nele o presidente inclui as metas, diretrizes e prioridades que os programas de governo devem abranger. Ou seja é um manual de como ele pretende governar. - mesmo link
IVA RETENIDO PPA - http://www.sii.cl/declaraciones_juradas/ddjj_3327_3328/cod_o...
Note from asker:
It's a possibility. I found a reference from Argentina with PLAN PLURIANUAL, so perhaps this is what PPA means in this context. I'll ask the client on Monday.
Peer comments on this reference comment:

disagree philgoddard : The asker has already explained what it means, and it's Spanish, not Portuguese.
2 hrs
disagree AllegroTrans : what has happened to "pequeños productores agricolas"? and why Portuguese?
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