To avoid further increases, the Government exempts private schools from paying employer contributions

Since 2001 and on successive occasions, private schools have been exempted by decree from employer contributions.

In December 2019, the Law of Social Solidarity and Productive Reactivation in the Framework of the Public Emergency established, among other issues, new rates for employer contributions, exempting employers who own privately managed educational establishments from paying them until the end of 2020, and empowered the Executive Branch to extend the exemption, which the previous administration did by decree in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

The last extension had expired on December 31 of last year.

If it had not been extended, there would have been a “disproportionate increase in employer contributions”, which would be “even greater” outside the city and province of Buenos Aires.indicate the recitals.

The increase “would aggravate the critical context in which the institutions are immersed, having repercussions on the economy of many of the families that attend them.”

In this sense, the Government stressed, in the same terms as the 2023 extension decree, that “the increase in employer contributions will generate a significant increase in the budget items of the provinces, since the state contribution not only contributes to the payment of the salaries of curricular teachers but also the payment of employer contributions on those salaries”.

On the other hand, he pointed out that “in cases in which the educational institute does not receive a state contribution, or receives it partially, the significant increase in employer contributions will cause significant increases in the value of the fees paid by families for educational services.” and it will affect your economy.”

“It is a priority of the Government to promote an increasingly inclusive education that generates opportunities for the entire Argentine territory,” the decree concluded.