Mercedes Marcó del Pont, head of AFIP, came out to give the numbers of the embargo.
Earlier this year, AFIP reported that it intended to go to court to obtain it seize virtual wallets of 9,800 defaulting taxpayers who they owed a total of $ 24 billion in taxes.
The first embargo was in February and, since then, the agency has recovered more than $ 800 million from virtual wallets, as reported Wednesday.
Over the past four months, courts across the country have authorized 1,269 seizures. The magistrates of Tucumán, Catamarca, Santa Fe, San Juan, Salta, Jujuy, Misiones, Entre Ríos, City of Buenos Aires, Neuquén, Córdoba, Santa Cruz, Chubut and several districts of the province of Buenos Aires, among others, have approved the requests of the AFIP.
Up until the beginning of the year, the delinquent taxpayer embargoes that AFIP requests from the courts were carried out on bank accounts, personal property, real estate and credits, among others.
But the growing use of electronic means of payment has led AFIP to include digital accounts in the list of assets that can be seized to collect debts.
To determine which accounts to request the freezing of the seizure, the agency draws on the information regime which, as in the case of financial institutions, obliges companies in the sector to report information referring to their customers’ accounts.
The regulations do not prioritize which goods should be prepaid first when calling for the blocking of an embargo to collect debts.
However, practice shows that measurements begin with the more liquid assets, such as bank accounts.
When the available balance is insufficient or the taxpayers do not have this type of placement, pledges are requested on other assets.
The execution of tax debts with AFIP, the step after the blockade of embargoes, was suspended for 19 months as part of the tools implemented to cushion the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Executions resumed in February. AFIP has initiated tax executions of riskier taxpayers with larger amounts of debt.
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Source: Clarin
