The rural areas of northern Buenos Aires decided this invite producers not to pay rural property tax after reporting that there had been increases higher than what was established by law.
This was established in an assembly held today at noon in the town of Salto, which was attended by more than 150 producers and the senator of Buenos Aires Florence Arietto.
Likewise, the producers agreed move forward with administrative and judicial actions recommended by Senator Arietto e encourage rural women in the province to hold local or regional assemblies. There was also talk of a demonstration towards the city of La Plata, but for the moment they have given up on this possibility.
Previously, the senator from the province of Buenos Aires had made it known that she too would not pay the tax: “My brother tells me that there has been a 346% increase in rural real estate in the Ramallo countryside. The limit authorized by The legislature was 200%, so we will not pay the excess because it is confiscatory,” he posted.
More than 150 producers were present at the Salto assembly.This comes after the request of President Javier Milei and national deputy José Luis Espert not to pay taxes in Buenos Aires.
Another meeting was also held in the city of Salliqueló, where it was decided not to pay the tax and to proceed with both individual and collective legal actions.
From the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs they underlined that the established increases were approved by the Legislature of the Province of Buenos Aires.
My brother tells me that there has been an increase in rural real estate in the Ramallo countryside of 346%. The limit authorized by the Legislature was 200%, so we will not pay the excess because it is confiscatory.
— Maria Florencia Arietto ???????? (@florenciarietto) March 19, 2024
Furthermore, they confirmed that the ARBA issued 300,723 rural items and only 2,138, i.e. 0.71% of the total. are valued at more than $198,940,000 in tax baseof which, starting from what was approved by the Legislature, there are increases above the limit, which was 200%, and which reach 300%.
One of the producers’ requests was for the bonuses to return for compliance with the payment of the tariff, which was 15%, and for adhering to the automatic debit, which added an extra 5%, but from the agricultural portfolio of Buenos Aires they have assured that They decided to increase less than inflation (from February 2022 to February 2023 it is 276%) and to eliminate such benefits.
So, they added, that 99% of rural property owners will have received tax increases issued below inflation.
“In the case of the rural property tax, theThe rates set by the legislator imply a reduction for practically all property ownerswith the exception of 2 thousand people whose properties have a market value of over 3 million dollars,” the governor of Buenos Aires said on his social network in a thread in which he also criticizes President Milei.
The President of the Rural Reef Society, Patrizio Mollehe assured when the rule came out, “no one paid attention” to the fact that in reality this tax base would grow to such a “magnitude” compared to 2023. “That 200% limit disappears and reaches 800%. The same thing happens with the complementary tax, which is the most serious problem, there is not even a 200% limit”, he noted.
To this, according to Molle, two other issues are added: “There are matches that will pay the fifth installment and installments 2, 3, 4 and 5 will be updated with a passive rate of the Banco Nación”.
The Buenos Aires liaison table had requested an extension for the payment of the first installment due last week, but this request was not accepted.
“We are not in a position to receive excessive increases how they want them to be applied and, even less, new rates that evidently have merely collection purposes. And in many cases they are unconstitutional and go against current laws and the powers of municipalities,” the national liaison table said.
Last week the San Vicente lawyer and cattle producer, Agustín Arechavala, presented the first legal action against the tax increase last week: it is a declaratory request for certainty against the province of Buenos Aires. “I decided to do it because of the absurd increase we received,” she commented.
According to what he said, the bill he received amounted to $800,000 compared to the $100,000 he had paid in March 2023. “It’s crazy. It seriously affects us because we are coming from a drought that has generated losses for us,” he explained.
Source: Clarin
