The economist Carlos Melconian He estimated that it will be impossible for Javier Milei’s administration to remove withholdings from agriculture during this year and considered that only in 2026 will they be able to reduce them. “only if there is economic growth.”
“No one can blame me in terms of taxes, withholdings and exchange rate release. To those who promised exchange liberation and lowering of Export Duties (DEX), that one can be expelled,” he said, alluding to the fact that Javier Milei, in the electoral campaign, said that if he won the elections he would eliminate withholdings, although without establishing deadlines. .
“The next time a ruler comes and talks to you about this, know that he is lying,” He expressed and argued that the difficulty of lowering withholdings is explained by the fact that they are key, along with the PAIS tax, to sustain the fiscal surplus.
The former president of Banco Nación was the last speaker at the A Todo Trigo 2024 congress, organized by the Federation of Collectors of Mar del Plata. “You don’t have to expect anything from the Government, that is liberal, not libertarian; the Government is there to take you out, not to give you”
Melconian recalled that he ran the campaign “telling the truth” and that they recommended that he tour the interior with the promise of letting the exchange rate float and lowering withholdings. But for him, the priority was to have the people’s credit and for them to say “I believe this guy,” he said.
Micro and macro analysis
The economist was at the closing of the A Todo Trigo congress where he spoke about the present and future of the country in the micro and macro part, as well as being severe regarding current governance: “The only candidate who didn’t lie was me.”
He was on the last panel “Economic and Political Perspectives”, where he developed the micro and macroeconomic part: “I believe that politics and economics play an important role. The present is to see where we are, the emergency that had to be faced and the transition of now. The future is the impact of the rate of inflation, the exchange rate, the level of activity, which must be divided between rebound and growth, Argentina’s return to the markets and taxes.”
“More or less I’m saying almost the same thing as when I had to work on a campaign for a candidate (Patricia Bullrich). The only one who wasn’t lying was me,” he noted ironically.
When asked why he made that comment, Melconian responded: “I say it because everything is happening.”
When the head of politics had to seduce almost by lying to win votes, nothing more. So with those things I always said don’t count on me, I always went straight with the truth. And everything that is happening to him now, following the president’s verbiage, I think the countryside did not see it.”
Regarding the bases and tools for the emergence of the sector, the economist recalled a comment by Martín Guzmán: “When he had to sign the agreement with the IMF, he presented it by saying, ‘if you ask me if I want it or not, I want it.’ .
If you ask me what changes the next day, little’. In this context of a government with little representation, which arrived by chance, governability has to be demonstrated.”
“I understand the countryside. When you promise a floating exchange rate without withholdings to win votes, I later had to eat the political fringe of Bullrich, who came and said ‘hey, Santa Fe, Córdoba and I don’t know what, there is I have to go throw a lollipop because if not, they won’t vote for us.’ I already lived it,” he emphasized.
Source: Ambito
