in mirror to Nationvarious provinces promoted their own whitewashingwith specific characteristics according to each district. While this Friday the first stage ends, which according to data from the Customs Collection and Control Agency (ARCA) made it possible to raise nearly US$20 billion until October 31, The governors play their own cards to strengthen the income of foreign currency.
Within the group of administrations that have already embraced the regulations are Córdoba, Chaco, Jujuy, Tucumán, Corrientes, Misiones, Chubut and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), among others. But, in particular, the cases of Santa Fe, Jump and Neuquen that They decided to charge their own fee to those who launder money, contrary to the libertarian government.
Santa Fe: “prize” to those who did comply
In the case of Santa Fe, the governor of the province, Maximiliano Pullarosent a bill to the Legislature to adhere to the regulations. However, the initiative contemplates the collection of a 2% tax on those who decide to launder more than US$100,000. The provincial management was differentiated from the Casa Rosada and, beyond accompanying the measure, He criticized delinquent taxpayers, while congratulating those who did comply with their commitments.
In this regard, the local Minister of Economy, Pablo Olivarespointed out that while the National State “is going to forgive national taxes to those who adhere to this money laundering, what happens is that all the provincial treasuries can remain on the lookout for those who adhered to the money laundering to collect the taxes of the last five years.” “From Santa Fe, on the contrary, we do not want to be an obstacle to this national policy, but neither do we want accession at the provincial level to be under any conditions,” said.
Along these lines, he clarified that the 2% paid can be taken as taxes on future gross income, “that is, what they are going to be doing is an advance payment of the taxes that they are going to have to pay in the future.” “The true heroes are those who have always fulfilled their tax obligations,” said the official. When asked by Ámbito, in Santa Fe they emphasized that the proceeds will not remain in the public coffers but rather “will be redistributed to those who comply.”
10% rate in Salta and accession of the capital
Similar scenario is replicated in Jumpwhere the management of Gustavo Saenz He managed to get the Legislature to approve his money laundering project. On October 3, in its 25th Ordinary Session, the local Senate approved the bill by which it was established “an exceptional and transitional regime of tax relief measures for the regularization of tax debts administered by the General Directorate of Revenue of the Province of Salta, including those that are under discussion at the administrative headquarters or are the subject of an administrative procedure and/ or judicial”.
The text had already obtained the green light on September 24 in the Chamber of Deputies, when it was voted unanimously in general, although with dissent in particular.
The corpus includes a 10% tax for those who launder amounts of US$100 thousand or more. In this regard, the legislator Socorro Villamayor He noted that the main objectives of the initiative are: tax relief, which seeks to facilitate the payment of tax debts to taxpayers, offering reductions in interest, fines and surcharges. Recognition of the compliant taxpayer, so benefits will be established for responsible taxpayers.
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“The regularization of assets, starting from the accession to National Law No. 27,743 for those with assets greater than 100,000 dollars, stipulating a special tax of 10%. And the promotion and encouragement of legal trade, through the modification of regulations to strengthen the fight against illegal trade,” indicated the Salta authorities. In this regard, the General Directorate of Revenue recalled that interested parties must present via the web: Affidavit, the Acknowledgment of Receipt and the Proof of payment, as appropriate, that they made to the national Treasury.
Meanwhile, this Thursday, the Deliberative Council of the provincial capital did the same, that approved an ordinance so that the city also adheres to money laundering, applying a 1% tax to those who participate.
Neuquén, pioneer
The third case is Neuquen. The district commanded by Rolando Figueroa Last July, through its Legislature, it approved Law 3,450, which establishes a tax moratorium for taxpayers and adherence to money laundering.. It was promoted by the local government and. When the externalization exceeds US$100 thousand dollars, it taxes those who enter laundering with a progressive rate of 0.75% to 1.25%.
On this point, the Neuquén Undersecretary of Public Revenue, Juan Martin Insúaassured the provincial contribution “substitutes what was not paid from gross income and is based on the stipulated stages.” “In the national money laundering plan there are three stages with different dates. And we, following these stages, will have an aliquot of 0.75, 1% and 1.25%, respectively,” he explained.
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At the same time, he commented that “There is also a 50% discount on the stamp tax in the event that an asset that involves stamping must be externalized.” “It is very important, because whoever launders at the national level can also regularize the tax on gross income in the province”, he pointed out.
At the national level, according to data shared by ARCA (exAFIP), until October 31, US$19,023 million were deposited into CERA/ALYC accounts and US$1,935 million were deposited into other declared assets. Also 11,233 properties (10,817 in Argentina and 416 abroad) and US$19 million in digital currencies.
Source: Ambito
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