The provinces came out this Thursday to detach themselves from the order that the Government sent them to promote the repeal of municipal taxes. “80% of the tax burden is explained by national taxes,” the Minister of Economy of a subnational district responded to the query of Scope.
On Wednesday, it was learned that the head of the Treasury Palace, Luis Caputosent a note to the jurisdictions asking them, in order to avoid increases in tax pressure, “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.”
At the same time, Economía asked to notify the municipalities so that, in the event that they do not comply with the requirements detailed above, they be suspended from the co-participating mass.
This is a tribute with which the libertarian administration is up in arms, especially in the province of Buenos Aireswhere various companies have already gone to court demanding its repeal in line with what the Casa Rosada intends.
The responses of the provinces to the Government’s request
However, the claim extended to the rest of the districts was received with caution. “We are aligned with fiscal and bureaucratic relief, we have been doing it for 10 years and we will continue doing it,” He pointed out in response to the question of Scope the Minister of Economy of a radical administration. In any case, the official clarified that “national taxes are what explain more than 80% of the fiscal pressure in Argentina.”
“The national Constitution itself speaks of objective criteria which have been breached for 30 years” He added, and argued that they will request and send information about the municipalities.
In Córdoba, meanwhile, they reported that there are few municipalities that charge fees without providing services, although they clarified that there is a regime of municipal autonomies guaranteed by the provincial Constitution. ““We respect that,” they pointed out from the administration of Martin Llayora.
They did the same in Between Riverswhere they recalled Governor Rogelio Frigerio had already lowered the provincial tax component, as had the city of Concordia. “It is something that is being discussed with the mayors,” They explained to this medium.
Other jurisdictions, meanwhile, claimed to have received the Government’s request and are analyzing it.
The one who also picked up the gauntlet was the mayor of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, the Peronist Gustavo Saadi. The mayor gave his opinion on the national resolution that calls attention to the Catamarca energy company, EC SAPEM, regarding the collection of municipal rates and considered that “it is a power” of the company, while clarifying that “We must keep in mind that there is the charge for public lighting, which is a service that is provided and must be paid for.”
Saadi considered that the tax “fundamentally serves the company more than the municipality because the company is charged directly, it is not that the money goes to the municipality from those rates.” “This happens when there are national officials who do not understand how a province or a municipality is run because they have never been there. “Public lighting is a service, at night you see it is on and that generates expenses,” he protested.
The Government, on a war footing against municipal taxes
Days ago, in dialogue with the La Fábrica podcast, the owner of the Diarco wholesale chain, Roberto Goldfarb admitted that he closed a branch in a Buenos Aires municipality due to the high costs of municipal taxes and that he intends to do the same with the firm’s supermarket in Lanús.
“There is a municipality where I closed the branch and there is another where I am about to close due to municipal taxes. The last one I’m talking about is Lanús. There are municipalities that, apart from charging a very high rate, charge another rate for each of the services. “On the electricity bill, I get a COVID tax,” the businessman complained.
Precisely in that town in the south of the suburbs, supermarkets announced, months ago, that they would transfer the Safety and Hygiene fee charged by the municipality to their prices. Aware of the situation, Minister Caputo himself came out to support the move and charged against Julian Alvarezthe local mayor.
“The residents of Lanús, suffering from the ineffectiveness of their mayor, pay higher prices than in other municipalities. Well, the supermarkets explaining that the price increase is only in Lanús,” the economist pointed out.
This Wednesday, along with the Nation’s request to the provinces, the Administrative Court of Appeal of Mar del Plata reversed a first instance ruling that prevented the city of Mar del Plata from charging a Road Tax. It happened on the same day that the Government asked the provinces to promote the repeal of “municipal taxes.”
After a presentation by provincial deputy Guillermo Castello of La Libertad Avanza (LLA), a first instance judge declared unconstitutional a Road Tax that is charged every time fuel is loaded in the General Pueyrredón Municipality, where the city of Mar is located. of Silver.
Source: Ambito
