Bye Country Tax: how it affects the purchase of subscriptions and video games

Bye Country Tax: how it affects the purchase of subscriptions and video games

November 27, 2024 – 2:17 p.m.

After the measure taken by the government, the question arose: what will happen to the purchase of subscriptions and video games?

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The Government of Javier Milei, through the Customs Collection and Control Agency (ARCA), ex AFIP, which will be eliminated starting this Monday, 95 percent of the advance payment of the PAIS Tax for imports. After this measure, the doubt arose: What will happen to the purchase of subscriptions and video games?

For those fans of cinema and video games, we bring good news. Below is the explanation.

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How the withdrawal of the Country Tax affects the purchase of subscriptions and video games

Until now, the card or solidarity dollar has an additional surcharge of 30% for the Country tax, and another 30% for the Income tax. In the case of the dollar for digital services, whether streaming sites or video games, it is made up of a 30% of Profits, 21% of VAT, and 8% of the Country tax.

Starting December 24, the card dollar will drop by 30% to buy trips, online products, hotels, among others. However, for the purchase of video games and digital services, will drop 8%.

As a consequence, digital services such as purchasing video games on Steam and PlayStation (PS Plus), or paying for subscriptions such as Netflix, YouTube and Spotify, will cost 8 percent less. This waytaxes will amount to 51 percent (30 percent profit and 21 percent VAT).

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