El comercio informal en Tunja : causas y consecuencias.

Abstract

Informal trade is the economic exchange, which is carried out irregularly or hiddenly, because it does not follow the tax processes and permits required by the authorities to exercise. Colombia is a clear example, because according to DANE reports for 2019, the percentage of informal workers in the 13 cities and metropolitan areas was 46.9% for the March - May 2019 mobile quarter. For the total of the 23 cities and areas Metropolitan was 48.1%. Therefore, the capitals of the departments face high informality, also known as socio-economic issues. The department of Boyacá and more its capital Tunja, presents a high number of people working in informal commercial activities, mostly in the city center. In this sense, he carried out a documentary, descriptive and mixed type investigation, analyzed the causes that caused the informal work in Tunja and therefore the consequences for the city, the department and the country; therefore, to end with solutions that minimize the increase so far in the informal sphere. It was noted that informality ends with the tranquility of the population, generates low quality jobs and unfair competition, among many others. Indeed, it will be considered important to take as informative portals references and government programs and projects, in order to establish a specific analysis, since informal trade is one of the main problems affecting the Colombian economy.