Months after the laundering began of capital and goods, The treasury authorities still have to dictate clarifying measures so that the actors involved in the process behave in a homogeneous manner. Now it is the case of banks.
The National Tax Directorate (DNI) had to issue a clarification for banks to withhold the Special Tax correctly. This is 5% in the case of the cash that was already declared in the first stage of the externalization plan.
to many people who have withdrawn money from the Special Asset Regularization Account (CERA), the tax discount has been calculated on the remaining balance in the accountwhen in reality the bank should have received it swork on what is removed.
Accountant Alejandro Rosenfeld points out that ““If a person had US$300,000 in the account and withdraws US$100,000, some banks would withhold US$5,000 but would withdraw it from the CERA account.” “In other words, instead of leaving him $200,000, they left him $195,000 and the owner took the 100,” he added.
Rosenfeld explained that “What the DNI said is that if you withdraw, for example, US$100,000, they have to withhold US$5,000 of that money that is outside, not from the special account.”
Another example that was consulted to the DNI It is about a withdrawal of US$200,000, where the organization indicates that in reality the holder has to take US$190,000. The bank has to withhold US$10,000 at that time. But there are cases in which banks practiced withholding on the withdrawal amount. In the previous case, about US$190,000, which gives a payment of US$9,500.
In any case, Financial institutions are poorly withholding taxes from the people they laundered. Roselfeld points out that “General Resolution 5528 provides that self-withholding must be made within 5 business days in the event that the withholding has not been made.”. “It doesn’t say anything if the bank does it wrong, if in doubt I would withhold the difference myself, but I don’t know if it’s not just the bank’s responsibility,” he explained.
According to accounting professionals, the biggest problems are being seen in dof the main private banks in Argentinawhich have the largest number of branches in the national territory.
Source: Ambito
