They warn that the government wants to set the withholdings without going through Congress

After the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, presented the budget bill for next year, the traffic lights in relation to the insertion of an extension that would allow the Executive Power to fix the Export Duties (DEX), better known as withholding, instead of being done by Congress as established by the National Constitution.

“We want to warn national legislators that the 2023 Budget Bill proposes that the National Executive may exercise the powers to fix the DEX until 31 December 2023taking up the powers referred to in Law no. 27.541 / 19 (article 25 of the Social Solidarity and Productive Reactivation Law), which allowed the national government to fix them until 31 December 2021 “, warned the Barbechando Foundation which analyzes the legislative issues related to agriculture.

This possibility of the Executive was granted in 2019 by law no. 27,541 but it lapsed in December 2021 when the budget law 2022 was not approved. This is why the Argentine Rural Society and the Rural Society of Jesús María have started legal actions for the unconstitutionality of the collection of DEX carried out by the national government, a power that corresponds to Congress, as provided for by the Magna Carta.

The president of the Agriculture Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation, Ricardo Buriailepointed out that the project requires permission from lawmakers to extend DEX’s disposal powers until the end of 2023.

“I would not delegate powers to the Executive. If you give it the powers, the government can go up, down, do whatever it wants”, He expressed. Therefore, the deputy presented a plan for once a year and at the request of the Executive, Congress to establish the amount of export and import tariffs as established by the national constitution.

From the Barbechando organization, they claim that DEX “affects job creation, federal development and ultimately our country’s ability to produce quality food for Argentines and the world.”

And they believed that “the road to the development of our country are public policies that generate predictability, stability, over the long term, that generate dynamism in productive activities”. With this goal, they assured, they work “constructively to generate proposals that allow fiscal stability and sustainable development”.