In a context of high fiscal pressure and increasing demands by the private sector to reduce state bureaucracy, The Government of the City of Buenos Aires launched a key tool to simplify the life of taxpayers. From now on, who have Balances in favor of gross income tax can use them to cancel abl debts, patents and even gross income itself, in a 100% digital process and no amounts limit.
The measure, which is already in force and was promoted by the Government Administration of Public Revenue (AGIP), aims to facilitate the tax compliance with neighbors and SMEs, at a time where each weight counts. According to official data, more than 234,000 taxpayers In the city they already have balances in favor that could be applied directly to cancel tax debts through this modality.
How the new system works to compensate taxes in CABA
The procedure is completely digital and is done by entering the city key to the platform of the New tax current account. There, the user must go to the section “Operations” and then select the option “Compensate balance”. The system will show the balance in favor and the debts recorded in the tax enabled.
Among the most prominent aspects of the new scheme are:
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There are no minimum or maximum amounts To operate.
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The Compensation is automatic and snapshotwithout administrative intervention.
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It is available for natural and legal personsincluding monotributistas and SMEs.
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Debts of Gross income, Real estate tax/abl and Automotive patents.
The tool represents a significant change against the previous system, which forced multiple procedures to use balances in favor. Even in many cases these balances were immobilized for months by bureaucratic obstacles.
Jorge Macri: “Less bureaucracy is more time and more money for neighbors”
The head of the Buenos Aires government, Jorge Macricelebrated the measure as part of a broader policy of modernization of the State and fiscal relief. “We accompany the effort of those who invest, generate employment and make our city grow. Less bureaucracy is more time, more silver and more opportunities for neighbors,” he said.
This new functionality adds to the “express return” of balances in favor that the city enabled last January, and that allowed drastically to reduce the deadlines to recover immobilized money in the tax system.
So far, more than 10,000 taxpayers they managed to recover balances in an average of 48 hourswhen before the procedure could take up to three months. In total, they were returned More than $ 4.1 billion Within that framework, what generated a concrete financial relief for thousands of Buenos Aires.
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An answer to a historically dysfunctional tax system
The unification of balances for and debts within the same current account represents an improvement in the tax administration, but also responds to a long -standing claim of the private sector. The impossibility of using surpluses in a tax for canceling debts in other taxes generated friction, immobilization of funds and loss of efficiency.
In addition, many balances in favor were generated by Badly applied withholdings or perceptions or excessive, especially in the case of SMEs, which ended up impacting their working capital. With this new system, the AGIP seeks to expedite processes, improve the taxpayer’s experience and, ultimately, reduce the financial cost of complying with tax obligations.
Who can access and what can be paid?
They are enabled to use this tool:
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Natural persons with city key.
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SMEs, monotributistas or registered responsible.
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Taxpayers with balances in favor of gross income.
And they can use the funds available for:
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Pay off Gross income.
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Cancel the Real estate tax/abl.
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Pay off Automotive patents.
What impact can you have?
At a time where many SMEs face liquidity difficulties and neighbors try to keep up with their tax commitments, this measure represents a pump of oxygen. Although the high fiscal pressure or the multiplicity of taxes that exists in Argentina does not resolve in the background, at least it offers A simpler, rapid and efficient route To use the resources that are already within the system.
With the impulse of this and other digital tools, the Buenos Aires government tries to be closer to taxpayers and foster the culture of voluntary compliance, in a country where informality and evasion remain structural challenges.
Source: Ambito
