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La Lotería Fiscal cambia de formato tras impulsar el pedido de factura en comercios
La Lotería Fiscal, concebida como un experimento del Gobierno para impulsar la recaudación, combatir la evasión y fortalecer la cultura tributaria, sumará el próximo 26 de febrero su cuarto sorteo desde su lanzamiento.
El cuarto sorteo de la Lotería Fiscal se realizará el próximo 26 de febrero de 2026 en Soho Mall, en un contexto en el que el programa se ha convertido en una de las principales herramientas del Estado para impulsar la recaudación, estimular el cumplimiento tributario y fortalecer la cultura fiscal entre los consumidores.
En esta edición participarán las facturas emitidas entre el 31 de diciembre de 2025 y el 19 de febrero de 2026, período en el que miles de ciudadanos han sido llamados a reunir sus comprobantes.
Desde el Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas (MEF) se informó que el programa entra en una nueva fase de expansión, modernización y descentralización, luego de los resultados obtenidos durante su primer año de funcionamiento.
Las autoridades consideran que la iniciativa ha logrado modificar hábitos de consumo y fortalecer la fiscalización sin recurrir a medidas coercitivas.
La subsecretaria del MEF, Ana Matilde Amado, explicó que uno de los principales cambios será la transición del modelo nacional a un esquema regional, que comenzará a aplicarse a partir del quinto sorteo.
Para ello, el país será dividido en cuatro regiones, integradas por las diez provincias, lo que permitirá realizar sorteos provinciales mensuales y aumentar las oportunidades de participación.
Este nuevo formato busca fortalecer la equidad territorial, ampliar la cobertura del programa y garantizar que las comunidades del interior tengan mayor representación en los procesos.
Según las autoridades, la regionalización responde a solicitudes ciudadanas y a la necesidad de distribuir de forma más equilibrada los beneficios del sistema.
Además de la descentralización, el MEF avanza en una tercera etapa enfocada en la digitalización del programa. El objetivo es migrar progresivamente hacia un sistema electrónico, que permita participar desde casa, reduzca los trámites presenciales y elimine procesos burocráticos.
Actualmente se afinan los decretos y resoluciones que darán sustento legal a esta transformación.
El ministro de Economía y Finanzas, Felipe Chapman, destacó que el aumento en los ingresos públicos ha sido posible, en parte, gracias a métodos poco ortodoxos como la Lotería Fiscal, que han superado las expectativas oficiales. Según explicó, el programa ha contribuido a fortalecer la recaudación del ITBMS mediante incentivos directos al consumidor.
Chapman subrayó que el éxito de la iniciativa radica en haber convertido el acto de pedir factura en una práctica cotidiana.
“El panameño ahora entiende que exigir su comprobante no solo es un derecho, sino una forma de contribuir al país”, señaló, al destacar que esta conducta antes no se consolidaba pese a los llamados reiterados de las autoridades.
La Lotería Fiscal funciona como un mecanismo de premio al cumplimiento, en el que los ciudadanos depositan sobres con facturas fiscales en puntos habilitados para participar en los sorteos.
Cada comprobante válido representa una oportunidad de ganar, siempre que refleje el pago correspondiente del ITBMS cuando aplique.
Durante 2025, el programa realizó tres sorteos en agosto, octubre y diciembre, en los que se repartieron $330 mil entre 75 contribuyentes ganadores. El tercer sorteo se llevó a cabo en Los Andes Mall, consolidando el interés ciudadano y ampliando la visibilidad de la iniciativa en zonas de alta afluencia comercial.
De acuerdo con datos oficiales, el impacto de la Lotería Fiscal se reflejó directamente en la recaudación.
En agosto de 2025, el ITBMS aportó cerca de $80 millones, cifra que subió a $90 millones en noviembre, mostrando un crecimiento significativo impulsado, en parte, por el aumento en la exigencia de facturas.
Especialistas en finanzas públicas señalan que el programa ha logrado cerrar una brecha histórica en la fiscalización del comercio minorista, donde muchas transacciones quedaban fuera del sistema formal. Con el nuevo incentivo, los consumidores se convierten en aliados del Estado en la supervisión tributaria.
Antes de la implementación de la Lotería Fiscal, gran parte de los comercios no entregaba factura de forma sistemática, y muchos clientes no la exigían, pese a las campañas institucionales. Esta práctica debilitaba la recaudación y afectaba la transparencia del sistema tributario.
Hoy, el escenario es distinto. La posibilidad de ganar premios ha generado un cambio cultural progresivo, en el que pedir factura se percibe como un acto normal, útil y beneficioso. Las autoridades consideran que este giro es uno de los mayores logros del programa.
Para participar en el cuarto sorteo, los ciudadanos deben depositar sus facturas en los centros habilitados dentro del período establecido, asegurándose de que cumplan con los requisitos formales. El MEF recordó que solo los comprobantes válidos entran en el proceso de selección.
Con la regionalización y la digitalización en marcha, el Gobierno apuesta a consolidar una Lotería Fiscal más accesible, eficiente y moderna. El objetivo es que el programa deje de ser un plan piloto y se convierta en un componente permanente del sistema tributario.
En un contexto de ajuste fiscal y búsqueda de sostenibilidad financiera, la Lotería Fiscal se perfila como una herramienta clave para fortalecer ingresos sin recurrir a aumentos impositivos. Su evolución en 2026 marcará un nuevo capítulo en la relación entre el Estado, los comercios y los consumidores.
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AAP faces pressure over trans youth care, guiding docs to keep parents in the dark about child’s sexual health
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FIRST ON FOX: A parental rights advocacy organization is sounding the alarm over the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) support for transgender medical procedures for minors and encouragement of healthcare providers to withhold the sexual health and history of underage patients from parents.
The American Parents’ Coalition compiled a «lookout» showcasing videos and public statements by AAP asserting that «science» supports «gender-affirming care,» which can range from puberty blockers to cross-sex hormones to surgeries for minors. The launch of the online parental notification system comes weeks before AAP is scheduled to hold its advocacy conference in Virginia from April 12 to April 14.
American Parents Coalition Executive Director Alleigh Marré accused AAP of acting like «a political advocacy group, putting ideology ahead of evidence and children’s wellbeing.» The «lookout» states that during AAP’s 2025 Leadership Conference, 98% of its members voted to make protecting sex change treatments its top resolution.
«Even as health systems abroad rethink experimental gender interventions, the AAP has doubled down on aggressive and irreversible procedures rather than exercise basic caution,» Marre said. «By prioritizing resolutions that elevate transgender interventions and partnering with activist groups, the AAP is acting to protect a political project.»
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In addition to advocating for sex change treatments for minors, AAP advocates for other political agendas, including banning so-called «assault weapons» and red flag laws, which allow courts to temporarily remove firearms from individuals deemed a risk to themselves or others.
A 2023 blog post on AAP’s website titled «Supporting Our Transgender and Gender-diverse Youth» stresses that doctors must provide «unconditional support» to underage patients, including asking their pronouns, using their preferred name and prioritizing their desires to change their gender over the concerns of parents.
«We have heard from parents, «I just don’t understand» in many of our conversations,» the blog post stated. «When patients and parents disagree about next steps for affirmation, acknowledge parents’ concerns, but always support your patient. When youth are not affirmed, there is a significant increase in depression, anxiety, risky behaviors, and suicide.»
However, at least two research reviews conducted by the United Kingdom and the United States governments indicate that performing transgender medical procedures on minors may not carry significant benefits.
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A 2025 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concluded there is a lack of proven benefit that medical and surgical sex-reassignment procedures alleviate a patient’s gender dysphoria. Additionally, a report by the National Health Service England found that a medical pathway may not be the best way to address gender-related stress and advised «extreme caution» for hormonal therapy for minors.
In June 2025, AAP President Susan Kressly criticized the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding Tennessee’s ban on providing minors with puberty blockers and hormones, accusing the decision of robbing children of «basic human dignity.»
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«Gender-affirming care is medically necessary for treating gender dysphoria and is backed by decades of peer-reviewed research, clinical experience, and scientific consensus,» Kressly said in a statement at the time.
Do No Harm Chief Medical Officer Kurt Miceli argued that AAP is misrepresenting «the low quality of evidence» supporting «gender-affirming care,» which «can cause lasting harm» to children.
«They are among the staunchest supporters of sex-rejecting procedures for minors, vehemently criticizing HHS’s comprehensive evidence review yet refusing to submit a peer review when invited,» Miceli said. «It is now time for the AAP to re-evaluate their policy statement and follow the American Society of Plastic Surgeons in opposing these harmful, unscientific, and dangerous practices on American kids.»
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A female doctor of Middle Eastern descent sits with a young mother and her son as they discuss the child’s medical needs in Canada on Sept. 28, 2022. (FatCamera / Getty Images)
AAP also created an Adolescent Health Care Toolkit geared toward teaching pediatricians how to engage in sensitive conversations surrounding an underage patient’s sexual activity, their gender identity, and even connecting the patient with emergency contraception based on understanding that this information will not be relayed back to the patient’s parents.
In one of the videos, Kelsey, a 17-year-old «patient,» talked about having sex with her «girlfriend» named Mary, who had a penis. At the beginning of the video, the doctor ensured with Kelsey that their discussion «stayed between the two of us» unless there was a concern for her safety or another person. The doctor discussed plans for birth control and ways to prevent a sexually transmitted infection.
In another training video, a 15-year-old girl told her doctor that she was a «gender-queer-demi-boy.» The girl said she had not shared this information with her parents, and the doctor assured her he would keep it between the two of them.
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In 2025, AAP received roughly $19 million in grants from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Trump administration terminated $12 million in grants, with HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. accusing AAP’s recommendations of being «just a pay-to-play scheme to promote commercial ambitions.» AAP sued, and a federal judge restored the grants as the litigation plays out in court.
Fox News Digital reached out to AAP for comment.
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Battleground Dem candidate linked public displays of faith to political violence in 2023 speech
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A Democratic House candidate running in a battleground seat in southwestern Iowa linked faith to political violence while warning against religion in public life, according to unearthed audio reviewed by Fox News Digital.
«We have seen religion and political violence showing up more and more in our public spaces,» Democratic candidate Sarah Trone Garriott said in a 2023 speech at a Methodist church. «It’s something that is just very in our faces and something that we’re very concerned about, and something that feels very threatening right now at this time.»
Trone Garriott, a state legislator and Lutheran minister, is running to defeat Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, in November’s midterm elections. Prior to launching a House bid, Trone Garriott fashioned herself as a fierce opponent of Christian nationalism — a term some conservatives have argued that critics use to paint some Christians as prone to violence and hostile toward democracy.
In the speech, Trone Garriott said it was «a good thing to talk about religion and politics together» and spoke positively about living out one’s faith in their community. However, she repeatedly voiced discomfort about seeing public Christian displays and suggested it was something to be rooted out.
Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor and former Iowa state senator, warned against a rise in public displays of faith in a 2023 speech. (Krysta Fauria/AP Photo)
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An image of a woman holding a sign with the phrase «one nation under God, indivisible» found in the Pledge of Allegiance, according to Trone Garriott, was one of several «pretty uncomfortable ways that faith and political power have collided.» The Iowa Democrat also called attention to Christian displays at one of President Donald Trump’s rallies and during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
«This is not a Christian nation. It’s a nation for all of us,» Trone Garriott told the church congregants. «Spaces and proceedings need to be for all people, and we need to work on reminding folks of that.»
As a state senator, Trone Garriott said she intentionally sought out opening prayers that were not from the «White American Christian variety,» but from atheist, secular and other non-Christian perspectives.
Trone Garriott also spoke critically of parental rights in education and private Christian schools. She charged that both stemmed from racist opposition to the integration of public schools when parents desired to create a «White enclave» for their children.
«So maybe some of these things sound familiar today,» Trone Garriott said in her remarks. «It’s nothing new.»
The Iowa Democrat then proceeded to tie White men to her criticism of legislation barring biological males from women’s sports or preventing children from reading sexually explicit material. She notably opposed a bill keeping men out of women’s sports while serving in the state Senate.
«It’s really couched in the language of there’s a threat against women and White men are responsible to protect women from threats,» Trone Garriott said.
Trone Garriott’s campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
California girls’ track and field athletes protest trans inclusion in girls’ sports at a postseason meet at Yorba Linda High School on Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Courtesy of Sophia Lorey)
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Nunn, who is seeking a third term in November, slammed Trone Garriott’s comments in the resurfaced video in a statement to Fox News Digital.
«I was raised around Iowans who go to church every week and show up for their neighbors,» Nunn said. «Sarah Trone Garriott can’t walk into a church without delivering a lecture about how their faith is threatening and their schools are racist.»
«She’s made it clear that the values Iowa families live by every single day are the ones she’s running against,» he added.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), House Democrats’ campaign arm, said Trone Garriott is working to unify Iowans in the 3rd Congressional District and condemns political violence.
Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, sharply criticized Democratic candidate Sarah Trone Garriott’s remarks, arguing she does not embody the values of the constituents she’s seeking to represent. (Michael A. McCoy/Reuters)
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«Sarah is a mom and minister who has served her community as a hospital chaplain and a parish pastor — public display of her faith has been a guiding force in Sarah’s life and continues to be to this day,» DCCC spokesperson Katie Smith said. «Sarah has always condemned political violence however it rears its ugly head and will always work to bring Iowans together.»
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the contest for the Republican-held seat as a «toss-up.»
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