Workers From today, self-employed workers face a double deadline for personal contributions to Social Security and starting next week a double VAT payment. With that it is expected that there will be an increase in arrearswaiting for the government to approve a new moratorium.
Its about expiration of the extension of the payment of contributions that the former Minister of Economy Sergio Massa had declared last year, along with the tax relief package for the middle class, which included the increase in the Income Tax floor and the increase in the scales.
Last week the Federal Public Revenue Administration (AFIP) postponed the original deadline of March 7 for today, because according to the agency there were technical problems to put the applications online.
The self-employed have time until this Thursday to pay the contribution personnel for social security corresponding to the periods of September and October 2023 and January 2024.
According to site estimates Blog del Contador, a self-employed person in the first category will have to pay $50,408.68 of Social Security contributions. That is integrated into the $15,710 postponed from September 2023; $15,710 in October, and $18,988.68 in January 2024.
That is why add the VAT payment for September and October of last year on March 20, in addition to that corresponding to February. All of which makes up a change that is difficult to endure in the midst of a sharp drop in economic activity.
It’s very probable that Many merchants or self-employed persons enter into moratorium before the AFIP, even taking into account that the current monthly interest rates for compensation are 15% monthly. were below inflation. “In March, two VAT positions are added together, in addition to the contributions. “It’s a fortune what you have to pay,” Lourenzo indicated.
“In the end “They end up killing the self-employed at a time when their wallets are tight,” commented the Auren tributary, Guillermo Poch.
This has a correlation with the conversations carried out by the national government and the provinces for the distribution of tax money, and on whom the burden of adjusting expenses will fall.
Waiting for the moratorium
Faced with this cThe treatment of a new moratorium law is important that the government includes in the fiscal package that it plans to send to Congress.
Taxpayers warn that The situation of the self-employed and SMEs has been severely complicated in recent months due to the drop in activity and the decrease in billing, which prevents them from having cash.
In fact, according to a survey by Study Center of the Argentine Industrial Union (CEU) 54% of the entity’s member companies had problems in January being able to make at least one payment in a timely mannera mark that is the highest since January 2021.
Source: Ambito
