On the verge of closing the marathon session of Deputies it was possible to incorporate that the social monotax is not eliminated and a period of 90 days is established to analyze their permanence or not in the regime Simplified for Small Taxpayers (RSPC). However, this is a central issue to consider but not the only one in the opinion of the monotributistas who have just been heard again in the plenary session of committees of the Upper House, in relation to the bill on Palliative and Relevant Fiscal Measures.
Indeed, The maintenance of the social monotribute was profusely argued by the president of Monotributistas Asociados República Argentina (MARA), Noelia Villafañe, both in Deputies and recently before the senators.
Social monotax
The posture in pursuit of the permanence of this special regime inside of the monotribute He not only supported it by covers the poorest sector within the tax and hence would go into economic hiding Because they could not afford the general tax regime, but because they would be left without health coverage, which includes the holder and his family. This expense, taking into account the income of this sector, cannot be supported in any other way.
This situation was exposed by Villafañe based on specific data regarding this special regime made up of 1,200,000 people, including monotributists and family members highlighting that the vast majority are children with abilities differentdiabetics, oncology, and other chronic diseases.
By “the elimination of the figure of the social monotax, the savings would be 0.000035% of GDP but the expense of pushing all those taxpayers and their children underground“Not only will the public health system collapse, but health spending will be greater than savings,” highlighted the head of MARA and asked the senators to maintain the regime, discarding the 90-day period proposed by Deputies.
Impact on the pocket
The bill contains new parameters and updated quotas that would come into effect immediately and that would have a direct impact on the pockets of small taxpayers. Taking the January 2024 adjustment and the projected one, The entity calculates a year-on-year variation of 370%.
Duealready in the general application plan of the RSPC, Two adjustments are encouraged.
Firstly, exempt the Category A of the integrated component and the pensionsince their income is below the poverty line and even indigence, the speaker noted.
To this end, he exemplified: A municipal contractor earns $130,000 monthly; A home caregiver who works 12 hours a day earns $275,000 monthly and a therapeutic assistant earns $330,000. How do these people double their income to be able to pay for that increase, if they already work 12 hours a day?
Also proposed the necessary reformulation of the expiration date for the payment of the new installments because as the terms are arranged in the project, the payment would operate immediately after the recategorization. As an example, he cited, assuming the immediate sanction of the law, that a category K monotax instead of paying $106,964.65 in July, will pay $377,084.76, which implies more than double.
In this order advocated not granting powers to the Executive Branch to increase the quota as many times as you want during 2024.
Re-entry to the regime
In the interest of equitable treatment, the entity also promotes and stated this in the plenary session, which those excluded ex officio and those voluntarily retired since January 2023 can re-enter the regimeEssentially, they argue, because the caps have been outdated for a long time and it is important that they be able to rejoin.
In other words It is inflation that expels the monotributistas, not the increase in their activity in volume.
Parameters
In this aspect The claim points to the adequacy of the rental amounts, Pay attention that in the April project with the updated amounts they “copied and pasted” the column of the rent caps from the March draft, which were related to much lower billing caps (approximately half), the association of monotributistas pointed out. In this regard, its adaptation to limits that represent 35% of the billing amount is encouraged.
Additionally, it is proposed that the surface parameter is eliminated or that from Category A to D be 85 m2. They understand that today “this parameter is dangerous with the new amounts that adapt to larger billing caps; “It is dangerous for a monotributista to rise in category as a result of the surface,” they assert.
Source: Ambito
