The The feeling that accountants and tax advisors have is bittersweet. It is because they were waiting for the Government to move forward with a moratorium that would allow him to decompress the tax situation of several of his clientsmostly small and medium-sized companies that are starting 2024 with the noose around our neck.
And it is that from this Thursdayif there is no resolution in the next few hours, the Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP) will be enabled again to seize accounts of delinquent taxpayers.
The deadline that the organization had imposed on itself ended on December 31. Then came the judicial fair, and now on February 1st the usual procedures will resume.
Since that day then The AFIP may freeze the funds in the accounts of those who come with significant delays and have already been officially warned about their debts. First through simple communication and then through legal summons.
A rope for SMEs
The Government decided to throw a noose at the SME sector by accessing a claim that he received at the meeting on January 25 at the Casa Rosada with the Minister of Economy Luis Caputo, which is the reduction of interest rates of the permanent plans.
The AFIP published the resolution 5841/2024 that reduces the rate of the plans to 50% and 60% of the compensatory interest that will also come into effect from this Thursday. They will be 15% monthly for any simple delay in payment, and 18% monthly when the agency must initiate legal action.
Plans awaiting a moratorium
The permanent plans present a varied menu of options, depending on the size of the company, the type of tax owed and the quality of the taxpayer. They are divided into type I, which includes those with A and B ratings from the Risk Profile System (SIPER), and type II, which includes those with C, D, E.
The most common thing is that companies use them to finance the annual payment of Income Tax. In that case the options are not very great. The ones with the best compliance in the category Micro companies can extend the payment in up to 6 installments. Large companies can only do it in 3.
That’s why for SMEs the moratorium was a much better option because according to the cases, the payment plans were up to 84 installments. Many of these companies are entering February hard hit by the effect of inflation on their activity, and by the drop in sales.
Gustavo Lazzari, businessman and liberal economist, committee mentor SMEs, Entrepreneurs and Producers (PEP) who came out in support of Javier Milei’s DNU, warned on his social networks: “The fiscal chapter was no less nor less of a priority. “Urgent: without a moratorium, February is fiscal carnage.”
As far as he could know Ambit from sources linked to Libertad Avanza (LLA) It is expected that from March, when the ordinary sessions of Congress begin, the Executive Branch will send the moratorium project separately that he withdrew from the Omnibus Law, as well as that of money laundering.
About, Salvador Femenia, spokesperson for CAME considers that if the AFIP came out from February 1 to demand payment of debt “many SMEs are going to be in trouble”but consider that payment plans (with reduced interest rates) are a good tool while can we wait for a new moratorium to be approved which will allow the balances of the plans to be included.
Source: Ambito
