For the entrepreneurs who were with Minister Caputo at the Casa Rosada last Thursday, the Government’s decision to revoke the fiscal measure was entirely a surprise. And them brought relief.
The main concern was spread 15% withholdings on value-added products. “It leaves us out of the competition in a more difficult world,” was the widespread complaint.
It took days and many studies by the bodies and above all by the Industrial Union to propose examples that could raise awareness not only of the Government. Even to legislators.
This explains the marathon of meetings, like that one zoom with all the Pro deputies, last Thursday or Friday’s meeting with Martín Menem of the government party and the one with the radicals led by Rodrigo de Loredo.
“Withdrawing the tax package was smart. There is a more optimistic climate and this helps to generate more favorable expectations with the opposition in dialogue,” Daniel Funes de Rioja, head of the UIA, summed up Clarín.
“Macroeconomic stability and zero deficit are indisputable objectives”, adds Funes de Rioja, recognizing that the Government is resolving commercial debt abroad with “predictability and seriousness”.
Even José Martins, president of the Agroindustrial Council, which brings together almost all the exponents of this vast sector, sent lively dispatches to explain that the increase in withholding taxes “is not only a loss of markets, but also of investment opportunities with other countries and in “In many cases it causes failure.”
Martinscelebrate the measurea” and is convinced that there are other ways to replace the estimated $2,000 million.
“The decision is very positive. The export industry appreciates the government’s effort and the ability it has had to review this measure which had a very high level of rejection from all export sectors and many provinces. It is the right thing to do and we must work to support the government in carrying out an economic plan that allows growth with the development of exports,” said Gustavo Idígoras, head of the powerful CIARA which brings together the oil industry.
Among entrepreneurs there are other concerns such as the one expressed almost privately to Minister Caputo by the head of Came, Alfredo González. “The rates that “AFIP will collect in case of delay, they kill SMEs.”he announced it, explaining that he was very affected by the drop in sales.
González, owner of a furniture factory in his native Chaco, took home the minister’s promise to consider signing up to 9 employees into the special scheme for micro-SMEs.
Source: Clarin
