The September tax collection registered a real reduction of 9%, by totaling $ 15.44 billionproduct of The high base of comparison with last year -by the anticipated payment of personal goods -but also for the transient removal of agriculture. In nominal terms, there was a 20%improvement, according to the Customs Collection and Control Agency (ARCA)
The official explanation for the loss of resources is the high comparison base that remained last year. “The slightest year -on -year variation of this month compared to those that were registering in the previous months, It is not linked to the performance of September 2025 but responds to the high comparison base For the extraordinary income of September 2024, “says Arca.
One of the elements at play was “the Special Regime for the Income of Personal Assets Tax (REIBP): for the expiration of the initial payment (75%) for the non -regularized goods. “In addition, last year the extraordinary entry of the moratorium took place and while the Expiration of profit and personal goods in 2024 was postponed For September, instead of June.
However, the Argentine Institute of Fiscal Analysis (Iaraf) indicated that if the extraordinary income of personal goods was excluded, the collection would have dropped 2%.
Negative impact of temporary removal of retentions
For its side, export rights They contributed $ 562,892 million, with a nominal improvement of just 4.3% and a 21% REA dropl. “He negatively affected the decline of tariffs arranged through Decree 526/2025 and the implementation of Decree 682/2025. The latter temporarily enabled the 0% aliquot for the export rights of soybeans, wheat and corn, barley, sorghum, sunflower, outer products, among others, on condition that exporters comply with the liquidation of currencies Us $ 7,000 million statements of sworn statements of sale abroad (DJVE), “said Arca.
On the other hand, the Import rights reached $ 714,912 million, with an improvement of 76.5%. In real terms, 33%grew.
What was the behavior of each tax
According to official data, The Value Added Tax contributed $ 5.4 billion with a nominal improvement of 32%, which implies that in real terms remained stagnant at 0%. The tax component, related to consumption, rose only 32.6%.
For its side, the Profit tax collected $ 2.9 billion, which marked a nominal increase of 35.7%, and a real 2.8%. The tax had some improvement in 2025, as is the case of the advances of companies that were 8.33% in 2024 and this year is 11%. In the case of people, there was a rise due to the increase in withholdings in salaries. Still it did not compensate for the high base of comparison of 2024 because in the ninth month the tax of the people who is usually paid in June was paid.
In BANK CREDITS AND DEBITS Income total $ 1.2 billion with a nominal 38% rise and real 4.6%. Meanwhile, social security income was for $ 3.6 billion, with a nominal improvement of 37.5% and real 4.2%.
The difference is the country tax
The National Tax Collection accumulated in first nine months of the year 2025, It would have been the same in real terms to that of the same period of the year 2024. If you are not considered what is entered by the country tax, Total collection would have increased 6.5%
Regardless The elimination of the PAIS tax, in terms of real interannual variation, in the first nine months of the year the taxes with the greatest fall would have been personal goods (-30%), co-participated internal (-10.3%) and export rights (-0.6%).
The taxes with greater increase Royal collection would have been the fuel tax (59%), import rights (20.7%) and social security (18.8%).
Source: Ambito
