IT Dollar: What is the plan for tech companies and freelancers to liquidate their currencies and what happens with the “Netflix tax”

The Minister of Economy Serge Massa is looking for the lowest budget weight you can spend and the most dollars you can get. In this second goal, the government has implemented the soybean dollar and the IT dollar, but neither of them tried the recipients of the proposals due to low incentives and high bureaucracy.

Now, from the Secretariat of the Knowledge Economy that commands Ariel Sujarchuk they are putting together a package for improve incentives both for exporting companies and for professionals who work as freelancers abroad and are paid in dollars that they leave out of the country. Today 30% of these exports remain outside the official circuit, about 1.8 billion dollars this year.

For companiesare working on a Necessity and Urgency Decree (DNU) that allows them to liquidate a percentage of their exports in the alternative market linked to the level of increase in operations.

They are also making progress on a tax credit obligation for the payment of taxes equal to 70% of the employer’s contributions for companies registered in the Register of the Economy of Knowledge.

For freelancers, the Secretariat deems it necessary raise the threshold by $ 1,000 per month (US $ 12,000 per year) that professionals can have in their bank accounts without having to liquidate them in the single and free market. This amount could double.

Another leg to facilitate the recycling of the sector is to give them tax benefits. In this case, Sujarchuk is work with AFIP in a single tax for technology professionals.

Is there a “Netflix tariff” coming up?

On the other hand, the secretariat indicated it no impending surcharge on the services of streaming. In fact, they assured, there is a concern in the cable operators industry that seeks a better balance between the rates they pay and those paid by different streaming platforms, such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, Disney + or Star +. among others.

“We analyze all the proposals we heard but that it does not mean that we will implement it. This problem has been on the table for years. In some European countries it is applied. We take it as an idea and we are seeing it. Evaluating its feasibility and how it could be done, “they added.

Next Tuesday Sujarchuk and Massa will relaunch the plan Argentina program which will seek to generate 70,000 new programmers in less than a year.

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