Alberto Fernández called for an increase in withholdings, but warned: “I need Congress”

Before participating in the act called for by UOCRA, President Alberto Fernández on Friday proved that the “best way” to separate the local price of wheat from the international price “is restraints,” but he warned he needed Congress .

“The instrument by which it is best decoupled is withholdings, but these are a legislative issue and I need a congress“, he condemned in statements on Radio Con Vos.

Fernández also argued that when you talk about restraints, right away “the field interprets this is a measure against them”.

At this point, the President crossed over to the opposition: “Opposition leaders went to the plaza to make a tractor for the windfall tax that the farmer would not pay. They were playing it with politics and forgot all the rationale and the Your votes are important.

“I can send an increase in withholdings to Congress tomorrow, but I will be defeated and they will say the government has failed and I have opposition making tractors,” he added.

Currently wheat withholdings are 12% and the Government still has the power to raise 3 more points, up to 15%, according to the Solidarity Law it approved in 2019.

Corn is in the same situation: with a retention of 12% and a cap of 15%. Meanwhile, soybeans are taxed at 33% and there is no room for law increases.

The president also attributed the delay in the start of the Wheat Stabilizer Fund to the resistance of the private sector, which he said, “prolongs the issue.”

The head of state spoke about the economic problems the country is going through: “The economy is working, but we haven’t achieved that revenue distribution is improving. “

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