Kirchnerist déjà vu against inflation: the Secretary of Commerce takes inspectors to the streets to check prices and accuses Macrism

Careful prices and checks by inspectors in supermarkets. They have always been the preferred tools of the Kirchner government secretaries of Commerce, since the time of Guillermo Moreno, to try to stop runaway inflation. Y Martin Pollera debuted the post this weekend by posting “monitor price increases” in chains and producers, and with criticisms of macrism.

In a statement, the Ministry of Economy reported that it “has stepped up targeted price control operations dismantle speculative maneuvers in different factories like supermarkets and hypermarkets “. The operations were carried out with the inspectors of the Ministry of Commerce, in addition to those carried out by other bodies such as ARBA (the collection agency of the Province of Buenos Aires) E AFIP.

And Pollera pointed against the previous government for reducing the number of inspectors: «We are thinking of guaranteeing the best inspection process. Macrism destroyed it, going from 500 inspectors to 13He did not explain why the previous administrations of Laura Español, Roberto Feletti and Guillermo Hang could not rebuild that team.

For this reason, and with the aim “of looking after the pockets of the Argentines more effectively in the face of abuse and non-compliancewe are working from the secretariat, with provinces and municipalities to cover the entire national territory“added the official.

The operations were also carried out in companies that produce consumer goods with high market powerthey added. There it was checked that the transport of goods was carried out with all documentation in order and without tax evasion maneuvers.

“At the same time, the price control tasks promoted by the Ministry of Internal Trade are carried out, together with a group of inspectors from the various specialized areas of the AFIP they also do the job, “they explained.

And they added: “The agents of the General Tax Directorate (DGI) carry out the face-to-face investigations related to the billing levelswhile the inspectors of the Directorate General for Social Security Resources (DGRSS) confirm compliance with the Work obligations “. The Ministry of Labor also participates in the inspections.

The audits will extend over the next few weeks and they hope they will participate more than 100 officials of all organizations involved.