In order to “avoid increases in tax pressure”, the Ministry of Economy sent a note to the provinces asking them to “implement measures so that their municipalities adapt to the legislation and promote the repeal of fees“whose value “is not proportional to the cost of providing the service.”
The Government considered that these rates are “illegal and arbitrary” and stressed that “they fail to comply with Law 23,548 on Federal Co-participation of Fiscal Resources.”
In this regard, they specified that the request is to eliminate those municipal taxes that coincide with taxable events or bases with the co-participating national taxes or that do not respect the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
Furthermore, from the Treasury Palace they asked to notify the municipalities so that, in the event that they do not comply with the requirements detailed above, they suspended from the coparcenary mass.
On the other hand, the Government stressed that municipal rates “affect the costs of goods and services, and prevent a greater reduction in the number of national inflation, harming the citizen and the different jurisdictions.”
The note sent also emphasized that Co-participation Lawobliges these districts and their municipalities not to tax, through taxes, fees, contributions or other tributes, whatever their characteristics or denomination, the taxable matters subject to national taxes distributed.
Finally, the portfolio led by Luis Caputo emphasized that these municipal taxes are deductible in the settlement of Income Tax and that, for this reason, decreases the coparable mass“which generates clear damage to the National State and the different provincial jurisdictions in their shared resources, without any justification.”
Source: Ambito
