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It said the pool of vehicles covered by the benefit had grown from 19 in 2024 to about 92,000.","DIAN said it assigned more than 6,600 refund appointments in August and September, with weekly allocations rising from 422 at the start of the period to more than 1,300 toward its end. It is staggering appointment releases to limit automated blocking and testing a document-screening tool in Bogotá before a planned trial in Medellín."],"sections":[]},"corrections":[{"at":"2026-10-07T00:55:39+03:00","language":"en","text":"German and Portuguese editions and translations of the data and correction explanations have been added to this article."},{"at":"2026-10-07T05:57:13+03:00","language":"en","text":"Data classification added: each figure now carries a measure identifier with its unit, geography, frequency and type. 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