Debt with the SRI, day by day
The Servicio de Rentas Internas (SRI, the tax authority) publishes its debtor lists as a daily photo with a declared cutoff date. This site keeps every photo and compares them: 7 cutoffs of the enforceable-debt list from the 19th to August 28, 2026, with the disputed-debt and payment-plan lists alongside. Seen as a series they tell what no single photo can: how many people enter and leave each day, how the total breathes and what can be glimpsed of the fate of whoever leaves. All in aggregates, pointing at nobody.
- Enforceable-debt cutoffs
- 7
- Change in the total
- +$2.9 M
- Entries to the list
- 7,670
- Exits from the list
- 7,395
A figure that breathes
Enforceable debt, from the 19th to August 28, 2026
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- Aug 19
- $3,522 M
- Aug 23
- $3,524 M
- Aug 24
- $3,525 M
- Aug 25
- $3,530 M
- Aug 26
- $3,524 M
- Aug 27
- $3,529 M
- Aug 28
- $3,525 M
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- Aug 19
- 312,637
- Aug 23
- 311,872
- Aug 24
- 312,947
- Aug 25
- 313,237
- Aug 26
- 312,980
- Aug 27
- 313,011
- Aug 28
- 312,912
The national total does not rise in a straight line: it breathes. The window's highest cutoff was August 25, 2026 ($3,530 M) and the lowest August 19, 2026 ($3,522 M); the net balance of these 9 days lands at +$2.9 M and 275 more debtors. Behind the near tie there is plenty of movement in opposite directions: interest and new debts push upward (64,813 balance rises in the window, +$8.6 M) while payments, removals and transfers pull down (3,609 reductions, -$8.9 M).
The list turns over every day
The movement between each pair of cutoffs
| Span | Entered | Left | Balance went up | Reduced it | Change in total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19 → Aug 23 4 days | 2,518 $1.3 M | 3,283 $1.5 M | 25,978 +$3.1 M | 1,534 -$1.1 M | +$1.8 M |
| Aug 23 → Aug 24 one day | 1,113 $359 k | 38 $6 k | 5,552 +$222 k | 9 -$2.8 k | +$571 k |
| Aug 24 → Aug 25 one day | 1,174 $5.6 M | 884 $513 k | 8,832 +$897 k | 461 -$467 k | +$5.5 M |
| Aug 25 → Aug 26 one day | 1,068 $192 k | 1,325 $353 k | 4,683 +$307 k | 631 -$6.5 M | -$6.4 M |
| Aug 26 → Aug 27 one day | 1,088 $2.7 M | 1,057 $457 k | 14,053 +$3.8 M | 812 -$607 k | +$5.5 M |
| Aug 27 → Aug 28 one day | 709 $750 k | 808 $4.8 M | 5,715 +$248 k | 162 -$235 k | -$4 M |
320,261 distinct taxpayers have passed through the enforceable list in the window: 305,679 (95%) were present at every cutoff and 14,582 entered or left at least once. The turnover is daily and small-grained: hundreds of entries and exits per cutoff that, added up, move a few million dollars inside a list worth billions.
The days with thousands of simultaneous balance rises give away how the system works: interest runs daily but is posted in batches, so the rises column jumps from hundreds to thousands depending on the cutoff. Reductions, in contrast, are few and large: payments and one-off corrections that in a single day can offset what interest accumulated over several.
What can be seen of the destination
5 pairs of cutoffs with all three lists complete
Whoever leaves the enforceable list (4,112 exits · $6.1 M)
- Reappears among disputed that same cutoff $3.6 M · 3
- Reappears among payment plans $0 · 0
- Shows up on no other list $1.4 M · 4,074
Whoever enters the enforceable list (5,152 entries · $9.6 M)
- Simultaneously vanishes from disputed $3.4 M · 3
- Simultaneously vanishes from payment plans $257 k · 68
- Was on no other list $5.6 M · 5,034
The debt analysis warns that leaving the enforceable list does not always mean having paid: a debt also stops being enforceable when it is disputed or enters an installment agreement. With the three lists archived daily, part of that destination stops being conjecture. Leaving almost never leaves a trace: of 4,112 exits, 4,074 (99%) do not appear afterwards on any other list, and the file does not say whether it was payment, offset, prescription or a purge.
But the money tells another story: barely 3 exits reappeared as news on the disputed list, and they took $3.6 M with them, 60% of all the money that left the enforceable list across these pairs. When the debt is large it does not evaporate: it gets disputed.
In the opposite direction, the most frequent transfer is the agreement that falls through: 68 taxpayers vanished from the payment-plan list and entered the enforceable one with $257 k. And 3 arrived from disputed ($3.4 M): disputes that end and return the debt to collection.
An observed transfer is a coincidence in the published file: the same identifier vanishes from one list and appears on another between the same pair of cutoffs. It describes what is published; it does not certify the proceeding. The categories do not add to the total because a taxpayer with several obligations can sit on two lists at once. Coverage: August 23, 2026 to August 28, 2026, the pairs of cutoffs with all three lists archived.
The other two lists move as well
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- Aug 23
- $138.9 M
- Aug 24
- $138.8 M
- Aug 25
- $137.7 M
- Aug 26
- $136.4 M
- Aug 27
- $136.5 M
- Aug 28
- $136.4 M
The payment-plan list is the only one with a clear direction: it shrinks almost every cutoff, from $138.9 M to $136.4 M and from 12,866 to 12,748 taxpayers in 5 days. It fits its mechanics: agreements amortize installment by installment and expire, so if fewer new agreements enter than end, the list falls.
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- Aug 23
- $1,672 M
- Aug 24
- $1,672 M
- Aug 25
- $1,672 M
- Aug 26
- $1,670 M
- Aug 27
- $1,664 M
- Aug 28
- $1,667 M
The disputed list is the opposite: the number of taxpayers barely moves (between 1,267 and 1,271 depending on the cutoff) and the amount jumps case file by case file, in a band running from $1,664 M to $1,672 M. Arguing with the treasury is a small club where every move shows.
How to read this series
Source: the debt lists the SRI publishes under article 99 of the Código Tributario. Each list is a photo with a cutoff date declared by the SRI's own module; this site archives every photo (the enforceable one since August 19, 2026, all three lists daily afterwards) and compares consecutive cutoffs. Spans longer than one day declare it in the table: between their two cutoffs there are no intermediate photos archived.
The analysis of the current cutoff, with the official definitions of each list and the detail by territory, sector and taxpayer type, lives in the tax debt page; what each list means for a specific company, in the tax debt guide.
The same discipline as the rest of the site applies here: individual movements exist in the public file, but this page only counts them in aggregate, never names them. And the series grows on its own: each new cutoff adds a point to the charts and a row to the table.
Tax information from official public records of Ecuador · where this data comes from