This Wednesday, before Easter, the judge Maria Fernanda Bisioof the Court for Administrative Dispute No. 1 of the Judicial Department of La Plata, proceeded with the presentation of the action declaring certainty presented two weeks ago by Agustín Arechavala.
The San Vicente rancher, who is also a lawyer, sued the province of Buenos Aires over the rural property tax increasewhich according to what he reported is higher than 200%, as required by the law approved by the Buenos Aires legislator.
Among the most important points of the Judge’s decision is that it will take place as an ordinary trial. Additionally, the provincial state attorney’s office will have 45 days to respond to the complaint. And to decide they ask for a report from Arba to resolve after 5 days.
“I decided to do it given the absurd increase we received. I see that the union channel and the treasury’s search for sanity have not worked until now and we will not stop losing rights when there is a situation like this”, he said commented to Clarín Rural at this time the declarative action of certainty, similar to an amparo.
The producer, who represents the fourth generation and is dedicated to raising cattle on 120 hectares, assured that the objective of the case is for a judge to clarify the position of the tax.
According to what he said,The bill he received was $800,000 versus the $100,000 he paid in March 2023. “It’s crazy. It seriously affects us because we come from a drought that has generated losses. If we had to pay this tax we would have to leave out the possibility of creating a job for new staff or hiring a particular service,” he explained.
Meanwhile, a group of agricultural producers from the municipalities of Azul, Cacharí and Chillar have called a demonstration on Friday 5 April, starting at 1pm, in the Plaza de Azul, to reject the increase in the tax on rural properties approved by the Buenos Council Aires. Aires Legislature.
“The problem has existed since December, when the essential taxes and the up to 400% increase in road taxes appeared,” says producer Cristina Boubee in dialogue with Rural Clarinand then lists a series of intersecting issues that outrage the group in question.
“We started to get more and more angry about the increase in taxes and fees, the province of Buenos Aires is exploding with the fiscal aspect and what happened with Kicillof is the straw that breaks the camel’s back,” he says.
This is the increase in the rural property tax, which according to what was declared provides for increases above the 200% limit approved by the Buenos Aires Legislature. Boubee states that in his sector the increase in the value of this tax between last year and 2024 was 426%, and assures that in some cases the increase has reached 500%. “It’s impossible to produce. There are areas in Cacharí that are completely flooded and it is not possible to take away the calves for sale, cattle fields that cannot produce and have reached much more than 200%”, says the producer.
Source: Clarin
