The Senate reincorporated the expansion of the gas subsidy to 4.3 million users. The benefit is financed with a percentage of the rate paid by all homes, businesses and industries.
The benefit is financed with a percentage of the rate paid by all homes, businesses and industries.
He final opinion of commission of the Law Bases that came out of Senate maintained the benefit of the gas subsidy for the so-called “cold areas”including those expanded in 2021, which were not contemplated in the initiative voted at the Chamber of Deputies.
The ruling party’s project empowers the Executive power to modify or eliminate trust funds. However, in the norm voted in the Low camera excepted fund of the Cold Zone Regime established by Law 25,565although not the expansion of its scope determined in the Law 27,637.
What areas are subsidized?
Article 75 in the Law 25,565 of 2002 National Budget established the Trust Fund for Residential Gas Consumption Subsidiesin order to finance the subsidies to residential users for networks and the purchase of residential cylinders and bottles in the provinces of the Patagonia, The Pampathe city of Carmen de Patagones (province of Buenos Aires) and the Malargüe Department in Mendoza. This benefit of 30% to 50% discount on the rate reached 800,000 users.
But in 2021, the deputy Maximo Kirchner promoted the expansion to other areas of the country with cold and cold-temperate climates through the Law 27,637. Among them localities of Mendoza, San Juan, San Luis, Salta, Córdoba, La Rioja, Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca and ones 50 municipalities of the province of Buenos Aires. With this modification, the discount on rates reached 4.3 million homes.
Given the pressure from legislators to support these provinces within the scheme, the opinion that came out of the Senate included this modification.
How the subsidy for cold areas is financed
This subsidy is not made through contributions from the National Treasury, but it arises from a surcharge of 5.44% on the price of gas (PIST)which is one of the four items that make up the bill and that is paid by all users in the country, both residential, commercial and industrial.
These contributions are derived from Trust Fund for Residential Gas Consumption Subsidieswhich is the one that finances discounts for residents of cold areas.
Source: Ambito
