Summit in Llao Llao: Guzmán already has a draft of the unexpected income tax and is looking for a wink from entrepreneurs

Martin Guzmán was received this Friday in anticipation of Llao Llao. There, on the hill where the Canadian-style hotel is located with 174 rooms and 28 suites, surrounded by the golf courses and lakes of Nahuel Huapi and Moreno, a hundred businessmen have “spicy” questionssuch as the ones Horacio Rodríguez Larreta had to answer on Thursday night.

The minister arrived at the hotel with a group of his officers, who were with him secluded for a few minutes in a room before the meeting with the businessmen. Among others are the undersecretary of institutional relations of the Palacio de Hacienda and its main political sword, Rodrigo Rueteand the secretary of tax policy, Robert Arias.

The talk started after 10 in a glass room with a view of the mountains and restricted access to the pressafter a talk titled “The future has arrived” with entrepreneur Santiago Siri and journalist who specializes in cryptocurrencies, Olivia Goldschmidt.

The latest activities of the summit organized every year since 2012, bringing together entrepreneurs such as Marcos Galperín (Mercado Libre) and Eduardo Elsztain (IRSA and Cresud).

After his trip to Washington, where he began negotiating program adjustments with the IMF -leading inflation-, Guzmán arrived in Bariloche with your new schedule, more focused on investment, opportunities and energy than foreign debt or price increases.

His focus is set on 2023 and examine the spirits of the select audience on unexpected income tax.The goal of the minister is to listen and collect opinions with purpose introduce possible changes. As was the case at the time there was an extraordinary contribution. When Máximo Kirchner’s initiative was launched, requests for “adjustments” began to rain down.

Llao Llao will be key in this sense: from Wednesday the main fate of the country will be seen there, part of the “1%” of entrepreneurs for whom, according to Guzmán, the tax is intended.

In the midst of Kirchnerism’s onslaught, the lack of concrete progress cast doubt on the project’s continuity. In fact, La Cámpora has not supported it until now. And from the business community, the signs are declining. Despite the latest news that he has slipped into the city of Neuquén, his stop before Bariloche, anticipate the possibility of completely deduct the contribution if the companies invest.

sources working with burador identify that “it is written” and that “it will be presented quickly”. UIA preferred to remain silent at the meeting held at Casa Rosada with the President, the minister and part of the cabinet. To his team they pointed out that this was not the place to discuss the subject. At the exit, however, Cecilia Todesca defended him and Daniel Funes de Rioja, head of the manufacturing plant, clarified the strong opposition to “new taxes”.

“Taxes are nonsensethe deductions are returned to you a year later and with the inflation there, you are useless, “one of the businessmen joining the exclusive group that meets annually in Llao Llao to think about” the future of the country. “

Instead, he is more interested in contracts and investment projects that the minister tells them privately lalabas yan along with the new stage of the world.

Two days ago, in a virtual chat at the IDEA forum, Guzmán assured energy sector executives that there “historic opportunity” to accelerate investments.

Within this framework, he again promised facilities to access foreign currency and turn it overseas, as large oil companies in Houston, USA did, more than a month and a half ago. With his team, they believe that the construction of The gas pipeline by Nestor Kirchner will be a turning point.

Bariloche, special envoy.