Taxes: Who won and who lost for the changes that the Government applied since the beginning of the management

Although from the government it is insistently ensured that the priority of the libertarian administration is to lower taxes, strictly speaking, the Steps given so far they are more aimed at ensuring the fiscal surplus or containing the price increase facilitating import.

It is understood that since his arrival at the Casa Rosada Some 3.8 million people had to endure an increase in direct fiscal pressure on their income from. That is due to the approval of the fiscal package.

The taxes that rose

It is of 2 million monotributistas whose fees rose between June of last year and January of this year 165%. Others 600,000 social monotributistas that had increases in addition to workers 400,000 freelancers, who had an adjustment to a lesser extent.

To that are added some 800,000 employees in dependency relationship that also had tax increases, because they began to pay the Profit tax.

On the other hand, although the government He decided to postpone for a month the fuel tax adjustment that was going to begin in February corresponding to the last quarter of 2023 and all 2024, strictly speakingfrom his arrival at Casa Rosada, he put to rebuild the fixed amounts per liter of gasoline and diesel that the government of Alberto Fernández did not carry out. While the tax is paid directly by vehicle users, their cost is usually transferred to prices.

Besides The libertarian administration eliminated the VAT return that ruled for some popular sectors based on consumption with debit cards. The program was called Buy without VAT What officials of the previous government They estimate that it benefited 19 million people.

The taxes that fell

In the balance you can weigh the sectors that have received benefits for fiscal pressure reduction.

In the case of the Internal tax reduction to mid -range cars, according to economist Hernán Letcher, about 35,000 average price and about 1,200 of the most per year are sold. As the tax reaches only cars and excludes those that can be considered as capital goods, 4×4 trucks do not pay it as well as trucks and machinery.

Another case is the tax on Personal goods, which has about 400,000 taxpayers, although 70% of its collection is concentrated in about 20,000, according to Letcher estimates. In that case, the government reduced the aliquot to 0.45% per year for those who anticipated last year the collection of 5 fiscal periods. The Government raised the non -taxable minimum of $ 27 million to $ 100 million and reduced the aliquots for fiscal year 2023 between 0.5% and 1.5%.

In Import tariffs were reduced aliquots for 89 products as in the case of tires and small appliances -from 35% to 20%. In this case, these are products to which the previous government had uploaded the import rate, by an agreement of Mercosur, and therefore, lor that it was made to return to the level set by the common nomenclator.

On the other sides the Buying limit of US $ S1000 Au $ S3000 and was exempted from the payment of import tariffs to purchases of up to US $ 400 (only VAT is paid). The latter is the usual franchise for those who travel abroad.

He Great tax that fell at the end of 2024 was the country tax whose expiration by law was on December 23, 2024 and the government decided not to extend. The impact was felt more than Nothing in streaming and games services and lower general inflation.

Meanwhile, the government also announced Recently an average 20% reduction temporarily of the withholdings to the export of the field, such as soybeans, corn and wheatand definitively to regional economies. What must be taken into account of this measure is that its cost is relatively low (0.13% of GDP) but that It could be permanent from July, When the deadline comes.