The governors of the Norte Grande are preparing a bill to partially compensate for the loss of income they suffered with the income tax changes that Congress voted on last year. They anticipated it to the newspaper Scope high district sources who participate in the dialogue with the national government. The draft that could become the definitive letter in conversations that take place during these hours, includes the co-participation of 30% of the tax on debits and credits and the same proportion of country tax.
Strictly speaking, The leaders are reviving the request that the provincial heads of all political groups had presented to Sergio Massa about the end of his administration, with a text on which they worked together from Entre Ríos Rogelio Frigerio to the Buenos Aires Axel Kicillof.
While the national government puts pressure on the opposition blocs and the governors to obtain a number of legislators that will allow it to approve the omnibus law, The provincial leaders of Norte Grande are working on a parliamentary initiative to compensate for the drop in the collection of their administrations without cutting salaries with a retraction of changes in profits.
They are working on the issue Raúl Jalil, governor of Catamarca, Carlos Sadir from Jujuy, Gustavo Sáenz from Salta and Osvaldo Jaldo, from Tucumán. According to sources who participate in the dialogue with the national government, at this time There are conversations to finalize the fine print of the bill that could be presented this week by the Catamarca representative and former Secretary of Mining, Fernanda Ávila.
Check tax and Country tax
The central idea of the initiative is to share 30% of what is known as the check tax, strictly speaking on debits and credits, and a similar figure of the country tax. The sum of these two percentages could bring the income of the provinces closer to what they obtained with the previous design of the income tax, although it would not be able to completely cover the drain on resources that is also aggravated by the cessation of public works and the adjustment in National Treasury Contributions.
The Minister of Economy Luis Caputo I had anticipated weeks ago that the Government would seek to reinstate the Income Tax for workers who benefited from the latest changes, but no project in that direction has reached parliament so far. In Peronism they speculate that it is a letter to pressure for support in other laws.
The situation is in many cases critical. The Argentine Institute of Fiscal Analysis estimated that this month automatic transfers to the provinces will fall by a real 7.5% on average. Although there are more sensitive cases if the percentage of revenue that these transfers represent in each district is taken into account. For example, Jujuy depends 77%, Santiago del Estero 75.5% and San Juan 74.8%.
Given the scenario of high inflation and a collapse in purchasing power, the option of middle-class workers seeing their salaries fall in real terms is not the most attractive. For this reason, the governors are working on this alternative which, according to the sources consulted, will have sufficient support to become law.
With information from Ámbito