Tensions on spending management remain firm within the government coalition. This Monday the newest chief of advisers to President Alberto Fernández, Antonio Aracre, slipped to correct that discussion and until the growth of the economy is achieved “a new tribute” could be created.. Immediately, the government deputy, Alejandro Topo Rodríguez, also came out at the crossing and assured: “Congress will not pass any new taxes.”
In an interview with the newspaper La Nación Aracre, he decided to take part in the discussion on deficit management and said: “Of course spending can be made more efficient, but until we grow and the tax base is high enough for revenue bear that expense, Shall we not have to look for some new tribute?”
“We can be more progressive to be able to generate that collection or we just have to look with the ax at who we are going to punish and chop to achieve that balance. Those are the patterns that are at play,” said the former Syngenta CEO .
The idea of increasing the tax burden at a time when the business sector was on alert as they believe the tax burden will rise this election year, generated noise within the ruling party and right away Lavagnista MP Alejandro “Topo Rodriguez left at the crossroads on Twitter. “Congress will not pass any new taxes. Our Zero Income Tax project is still in force, for 3 years, to the #MiPyME who reinvest their profits in capital goods,” he said in a message on that social network.
The head of the presidential advisers, far from stopping the discussion, answered him again: “What do you think about the taxation of windfall revenues due to pandemic and/or war on big companies?Aracre brought his business background to this discussion, as in the ruling party’s discourse, “windfall income” was not a new tax nor did it increase the country’s tax burden.
Rodriguez’s response was swift and ensured that in the case of the tax on large fortunes, What the government did was “cut taxes” on small and medium-sized businesses.
Unlike his predecessors at the Casa Rosada, who have kept a low profile, Aracre is an active Twitter user and with a media presence. When he left the presidency of Syngenta, after 36 years in the corporate sector, he said in journalistic statements: “If Alberto calls me tomorrow, I’m here. If Larreta wins next year too”. Two months later he had cut a deal to be one of the closest men in the president’s day-to-day life.
Aracre has already had crossroads with various sectors of the ruling party, including Pablo Moyano and Juan Grabois.
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Source: Clarin
