President of the Rural Society celebrated the reduction of livestock withholdings and pointed out against tax increases in municipalities

The productive sectors that are located in the Argentine Rural Society (SRA) They had a year of growth in foreign exchange from exports. Projecting the need to increase the competitiveness of national productionand although he stressed the importance of reduction of withholdings, Nicolas Pino raised the need to continue advancing in tax reforms.

“In livestock, it was fulfilled bring livestock activities to zero withholdingsor lower others,” explained the head of the MRSwho also pointed out that “withholdings on dairy, pigs and some wool issues” were eliminated. In this context, he highlighted that “Today the issues happen as they should, with supply and demand.”

Then, Pino stated: “We saw numbers of incidence of the State within production, which reached 70%, and the truth is that, with a State so present in the tax burden, and with numbers on commodities that the world puts and not us, it becomes difficult to produce. It is logical that we raise our hands and say that we have to change this because it will get complicated”.

Thus it was that he indicated that “a legislative commission was created this year and What we want is for the leaders of the Rural Society to get involved to manage where it is necessary to manage” and pointed out that “that commission is to go to the Deliberative Councils where There are mayors who, since they don’t have enough money, raise taxes more”.

Interviewed on Continental radio, he also recalled the vandalism that the SRA suffered and concluded with a balance for 2024: “ It was a very intense and mobilizing year and inward, typical of a year of a new government that proposed things differently, and that approach leads to decisions, discussions and contributions.” “We have achieved good things, although there is still a long way to go. Let us not stop at nothing more than complaining, but with the things we have achieved,” he said.

Tension between the countryside and the Government due to withholdings

In November, the controversy between the Government of Javier Milei and the agricultural sector escalated again after a response from the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputoto a producer on social network X. It all started when a producer expressed concern about the lack of concrete actions regarding the elimination of withholdings. Caputo responded by pointing out that eliminating DEXs immediately would impact State revenue and compromise the “zero deficit”.

Different rural entities, such as CARTEZ, expressed themselves and claimed that “campaign promises cannot be forgotten” and that “it is time for the Government to demonstrate with actions its support for the principles of private property and respect for the fruit of the work of agricultural producers.”

Luis Caputo He did not avoid the situation and in a recent interview with him on Radio Miter, he responded that “The objective is to lower withholdings”, we are going to continue improving the macroeconomic situation, deregulating the microeconomic situation and respecting private property. Those are our priorities as ideals. In the short term we seek for the country to begin to recover to have a fiscal surplus and return that money to the people with lower taxes. We have already returned a lot by lowering the most distorting tax, which is the inflation tax.”

The point is that neither Caputo nor the rural leaders have much to do regarding this issue, because All issues related to taxes are the power of the National Congress. The Government is going to wait for “there is money” and when that happens it would allow a reduction, removal or whatever is linked to export duties to be debated in the legislative sphere.