Report by Carlos Lamiral.-
According to what Ámbito was able to find out from industrial entrepreneurs, that was the condition that the Secretaries of Commerce, Pablo Lavigneand Planning and Management for Productive Development and Bioeconomy, Juan Pazothey put forward to give way to the sector’s claim.
According to reports, during the meeting, among other topics, the following were also discussed: Possibility of reducing the PAIS tax for industrial inputs and unfinished products.
Questions from industrialists about the RIGI due to its impact on SMEs
Previously, the president of the UIA, Daniel Funes from Riojahad highlighted some points of the Bases law, but questioned the effects of RIGI on SMEs.
In this regard, he pointed out that, in terms of inputs, within the new regime “an asymmetry is generated” with local producers.
In the same sense, the president of the Assembly of Small and Medium-sized Businesses (APYME)Julian Moreno, pointed out that the RIGI “it leaves national industries unprotected, particularly those SMEs, because they will not be able to compete with large foreign investors who will be able to import everything, from capital goods to the smallest input, and that without any limits.”
At the same time, since Argentine SME Industrialists (IPA) They prepared a report for expose the disadvantages between SMEs and companies benefiting from the lawensuring that “the RIGI practically raises a package of barriers to the operation of SMEsthat is, for the companies that predominate in the Argentine productive structure,” pointing out that “the benefit linked to the arrival of investments is linked to a high cost for national production”
At the UIA they maintain that “There are many investments that cover the entire SME universe and that they can have very effective results when it comes to stimulating productionand formal employment.”
Source: Ambito
