The basic food basket increased to $73,484 in December 2022

The basic food basket increased to ,484 in December 2022

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“The unregistered and informal wage earners are the ones who have lost the most purchasing power compared to the basic basket. For their part, for the monotributistas the ceilings and scales have risen below inflation and the tax burden above. In the case of autonomous the situation is even more complex because the limits for the payment of Income Tax have been below a total basic basket Food has risen above average inflation and the income of these sectors well below with high tax burden,” added the economist.

“In this context, analyzing the consumption situation by product family, they all fall back in 2022 in the formats where there are fair prices. Food, as well as Personal Care, are the ones with the greatest drop in consumption while Cleaning and Beverages present negative variations of lesser magnitude in the accumulated 2022 compared to 2021. The government maintains its perspective of a slowdown in inflation for the coming months. Impact of the drought on food prices, the rise in regulated prices and the indexation of delayed prices in the economy such as wages and the dollar make the task complex, added to a macroeconomic-monetary picture contained in the present with greater complications for future sustainability“, he concluded.

What went up in price the most?

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Source: Ambito

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