The governor of Río Negro, Alberto Weretilneckdenounced this Thursday that The province lost 9.3% of the Federal Co-participation in 2024, which is equivalent to $96,746 million.
Through their social networks, andThe Patagonian president denounced that the resources that the district stopped receiving represent 71% of provincial tax revenues, according to the Ministry of Finance.
Complaint by Alberto Weretilneck for Federal Co-participation
In his message on X, Weretilneck indicated that discretionary transfers fell by $15,085 million, “of which 86% was destined to pay teacher salaries through FONID, funds that should have been covered by the provincial budget.”
“With the resources that did not arrive, the province could have faced the two installments of the bonus ($67,157 million), canceled the Castello Plan ($83,158 million), built more than 80 hospitals like the one in Ramos Mexía, 40 schools of 1,900 square meters or delivered 1,600 homes,” protested the southern leader.
In parallel, he stated that “1,500 patrol cars could also have been acquired or the road works carried out in 2024 could have been quadrupled.”
“These data reflect the direct impact of the drop in transfers on the resources available for essential works, services and improvements in the province,” stated the leader of Juntos Somos Río Negro (JSRN).
As he told ScopeFederal Co-participation fell 10% throughout the country in 2024, according to data from the Argentine Institute of Fiscal Analysis (IARAF).
During December of last year, the Government national sent a total of $4,245,000 to the consolidated provinces plus CABA, compared to $1,928,000 million transferred during the same period of the previous year, observing a nominal variation of 120%.
The data indicate that automatic transfers through co-participation, complementary laws and compensation reached $42,133,000 million, compared to $14,356,000 million the previous year.
In this way, they exhibited a nominal variation of 194%, which would translate into a real fall of 10% when discounting the inflation of the period.
At the same time, the IARAF announced that, taking a perspective of the last 9 years, The amount of total real automatic transfers for the year, if the assumed inflation of 2.8% monthly in December is confirmed, would be in eighth place (ordered from highest to lowest).
Regarding the increase in net participation in December, they explained that it occurred “mainly due to the very good performance of income tax collection (+13% real year-on-year) and an increase in VAT collection (+2.6% real year-on-year).”
At the same time, discretionary transfers, also known as National Treasury Contributions (ATN), exhibited a collapse of 76% during 2024.
Source: Ambito
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