The true reasons for Misrahi’s resignation from the former AFIP

The decision was made, unexpectedly, on Saturday at noon. Two Caputos bid for his replacement: Santiago Caputo favored the landing of Andres Vazquezthe new head of the DGI when the AFIP mutated into ARCA. The Minister of Economy Luis “Toto” Caputo ended up imposing his virtual second in the Mecon, Juan Pazo. Two days ago, he had been appointed as secretary of International Economic Relations of the Foreign Ministry after being in the Production Coordination Secretariat of the Ministry of Caputo.

Misrahi’s resignation shares another fact that is impossible to ignore: He had been resisting from within the salary cut that was ordered by the Executive two and a half months ago. Her receipt remains under lock and key, but she continued to collect the approximately 32 million pesos that remunerated her as head of the AFIP, now ARCA, one of the reasons that generated a short circuit with the Casa Rosada and especially with the Economy. The Federal Administrator or Director – as the position is now – is the one who must define, in administrative terms, the amount of his own remuneration.

Misrahi had also been recommended by “Toto” at the time, since she is a close friend of his wife. The green light had also come from the lawyer’s advice Liban Kusafrom the Funes de Rioja studio.

The official statement from the Office of the President highlighted that the resolution “without consultation” applied to the provision of communication and advertising services as well as the creation of content on digital platforms and exchanges. A general resolution is rolled back with another in the opposite direction. The excuse crystallized that the reasons that led to the decision on a Saturday, through official networks, were only a staging to camouflage the true reasons that led to his departure.. She took advantage of the expiration of the decree – in the next few days – of the decree that had designated her in a kind of continuity in replacing Mercedes Marcó del Pont. Previously, the role of federal administrator required the agreement of the Senate, but that requirement was administratively mutated to extend previous mandates.

Misrahi had earned the distrust of the iron triangle that surrounds Javier Milei due to poor results, but also due to lack of control over what was happening behind the scenes of the administration under his charge.. The change of names may portend other problems: we will have to be attentive to the clashes that may arise between Pazo and Vázquezwhose terminals in power are different.

Pazo has a particular profile behind him as usual in the position of tax collector: he was a partner of businessman Francisco De Narváez and has declared offshore companies, in addition to properties awarded to him abroad.

To support the version that Misrahi’s departure had its origin in the sparks over the salary cut, the general secretary of the Union of Senior Administration Personnel, Julio Estévez – consulted by Scope– He assured: “we had no doubt that the executive director was never going to reduce her salaries to what a national minister earns; “That would be lowering our salaries as career directors, who have plenty of experience and training to direct the national fiscal body.”

The pruning was not only salary in this period. The plant of the former AFIP was reduced, for the first time, to less than 20 thousand employees and several experienced officials consulted by this newspaper, assure that they must control 10 times more CUIT, with the reduced staff, and with the retirement of personnel with greater experience, which migrated to the private sector. The Government achieved savings, but precisely in the division responsible for collecting taxes, which for those who are in the current ARCA, can put the fiscal balance at risk if the collection goals are not met, not only due to a reduction in operations, but due to gaps that are generated in their tax control.