One day into next year, increases in electricity, gas and water public services are already authorized. At the same time, other items such as health, fuel and telecommunications also show increases for January 2025, although above the guideline of below 2% that the Government seeks. One by one, the increases to take into account to prepare your pocket for the coming month.
Light and natural gas
The Government announced the authorization of increases in 1.6% and 1.8% of electricity and natural gas bills respectively. The increases are part of the search to converge prices around 1%, something that is already seen in the “Goods” category of the INDEC.
Likewise, while housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels added 230.7%, The accumulated CPI for the year is 112%.
According to the Secretary of Energyusers of high income (N1) pay 93% of the cost of electricity generation, while those of low income (N2), 26%, and households middle income (N3), 41%.
In the case of gas, users of high income (N1) pay 85% of the costwhile those with low incomes (N2) pay 31%, and homes middle income (N3)38%.
The first year of management Javier Milei ends with 838,466 households without subsidies applied to their electricity rates and 292,612 in the case of natural gas, according to the Registry of Access to Energy Subsidies (RASE).
On average, during 2024 electricity and gas bills went up respectively 268% and 531%.
Water
The invoices of AySA company users will also see a 1% increase in the month of January. According to the State entity, this is a possibility thanks to the “operational balance and the inflationary slowdown registered in recent months”, which generated an “exceptional tariff adjustment” of that percentage starting in January 2024.
According to the water supplier company, the average monthly bill without taxes will remain for users in the high zone level. at $26,277; for those at the middle zonal level at $23,863and for those at the low zonal level low in $19,175.
During the year, the average increase in the bill for services provided by AySA was 317%.
Fuels
The oil company YPF announced that it will update the price of its fuels starting Friday, January 3. The increase will be 1.75% on average and reaches suppliers throughout the country.
With the increase of 1.75%, the naphtha super will go from $1,108 to $1,127while the common diesel will jump from $1,123 to $1,142 approximately in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA).
In turn, the liter of premium gasoline, which currently costs $1,370, will reach $1,394 and the premium diesel will rise from $1,123 to a value of around $1,142 the liter
Rentals
Although the rental law was repealed at the end of 2023, contracts still governed by the previous legislation that are updated by the Rental Contract Index (ICL) will increase by 190.69% the first month of 202520 points less than in December (208.67%).
Prepaid
Within the framework of the judicial dispute between the prepaid companies and the Government due to a complaint of cartelization, the prepaid medicine entities informed their members of increases of between 3% and 3.9%according to plan.
Telecommunications
Bills from mobile phone, internet and cable television companies will display an increase that will be between 3.6% and 8%.
ABL
The Buenos Aires legislature gave the green light to the 2025 budget. Among other changes, it will be implemented for the payment of Lighting, Sweeping and Cleaning a table with ten climbs instead of the current sevenwith a progressive scheme based on homogeneous tax valuation (VFH).
According to the regulations, the properties will be divided into three geographical zones:
- Zone I (South): 2% increase.
- Zone II (Center): 3% increase.
- Zone III (North): 4% increase.
In turn, properties with a VFH less than or equal to $26.6 million will have a cap of 20% in the annual tax update.
Properties with values between $26.6 million and $38 million will not be able to exceed a 35% increase, while those with VFH greater than $38 million will have updates for inflation.
Source: Ambito
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