The legislature of Buenos Aires eliminated the tax on credit cards: since when will no longer be paid

After the announcement made Tuesday by the head of the government of Buenos Aires, Horace Rodriguez Larretathe Legislative Assembly of the City of Buenos Aires unanimously approved this afternoon the repeal of tax go shopping with credit card which was set up after the dispute between Nation and CABA for the matching funds.

The mayor of Buenos Aires announced last Tuesday morning that he had made the decision to remove “immediately” the tribute. “The neighbors cannot wait for the hour of politics and I will not sit and watch a government, which bankrupts institutions, takes Argentines hostage,” Rodríguez Larreta told a news conference. at the time.

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Faced with this scenario, the local Legislative Assembly treated the project today on a table and sanctioned the initiative. The session started after 11 a.m. and lasted about four hours. By not having drafts and examination in committee, the sanction demanded the opposition supportsince the votes of two-thirds legislators to approve the statutes. There were 59 votes in favour.

From Uspallata they wanted treatment and approval to be express. In this sense, the regulations It will come into effect from tomorrow. This means that porteños will stop paying stamp tax from Friday.

Between Tuesday and this morning, Emmanuel Ferrario1st Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, and Diego Garcia Vilas, president of the JxC bloc, were in contact and built bridges with the opposition to reach a consensus. The presidents of the blocs agreed in the Parliamentary Proceedings to move forward with the processing of the project.

“It was a promise that our head of government had made as long as the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the City for the arbitrary and untimely dismissal that we received in co-participation,” the PRO lawmaker pleaded in the room. claudio romero. In addition, the leader explained that since the Nation has not yet complied with the Supreme Court’s precautionary measure and has not transferred the money, the City will fund the removal of this tax from the surplus projected for 2023, or about 10 billion pesos.

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From the Frente de Todos, they voted in favor of abolishing the tax, but demanded that the elimination be retroactive to January 1. The ruling party in Buenos Aires did not grant this modification. “They want to sell a tax cut that you invented. The PRO is a machine that puts its hand in the pocket of taxes, ”he criticized Matias Barroetavena of the Kirchner bench.

“This tax was transitional and today we are going to repeal it,” replied Lucio Lapeña, a legislator from the UCR Evolución. The La Libertad Avanza bloc also supported scrapping the tax, but questioned the ruling party in Buenos Aires. “This is eliminated by the political consensus of the opposition. I had already presented a project to eliminate this tax and now Larreta says that he wants to eliminate a tax that he himself created, ”said the libertarian Rebecca Fleitas.

For his part, the leader of the Left Front gabriel solano He explained why his bloc voted in favour, but demanded the deletion be retroactive. “Larreta should have accepted our demand, under the pressure of his fall in the polls and in view of the repudiation he aroused in the population. Since the government in Buenos Aires now says it has a surplus, it should return the profits throughout this period,” said the Trotskyist legislator in dialogue with GlobeLiveMedia then he pointed the finger at Kirchnerism: “The FdT acted with hypocrisy because it speaks against the tax in CABA while Kicillof perceives it in the provinces.”

Remember that this tax was introduced at the beginning of 2021, after the national government cut joint venture funds intended to finance the municipal police. The measure involved a tax applicable to settlements corresponding to all transactions carried out in CABA with credit cards.

“The Court ruled on the legitimacy of the precautionary measure proposed by the city government and the national government chose not to comply. That is why we have made efforts to revamp programs and cut spending with more austerity in order to achieve our objective of repealing this tax. Now we do it and that’s how we explain it,” he commented. Hernan ReyesCivic Coalition legislator.

In December last year, the Supreme Court issued an injunction favorable to the City ordering pink house reverse the situation and return these funds to the government of Buenos Aires. On December 22, Rodríguez Larreta announced that he would eliminate the stamp tax as soon as the Nation transferred the corresponding money to him.

Although the dispute persists and the national executive did not send the funds to the government of Buenos Aires, Rodríguez Larreta decided to go ahead with the measure. “There have been price revisions in the contracts, due to inflation, added to careful resource management,” a Buenos Aires official told this outlet to explain the decision. The opposition questioned this argument and considered that Rodríguez Larreta’s measure responded to a strategy within the framework of his electoral campaign: a few days ago he officially announced his candidacy for the presidency in the next elections.

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