He Buenos Aires government of Axel Kicillof He again complained to the administration of Javier Miley the approval of the state of agricultural emergency already declared in districts of the province. This was done by the Minister of Agrarian Development of the province, Javier Rodriguezwho reiterated his request to the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, y al Secretary of Agriculture, Fernando Vilella, “to urgently resolve the situation of more than 700 producers affected by the drought.”
Thus, Rodríguez sent a letter to Caputo and Vilella in which he claimed the urgent approval by the national government of the provincial agricultural emergency decree 2157/23, which includes 39 Buenos Aires municipalities, and the treatment in the National Commission for Agricultural Emergencies of another decree that corresponds to 12 districts.
“In total they are more than 700 producers affected by the drought who have already received benefits from the Collection Agency of the Province of Buenos Aires (ARBA) and Banco Provincia, but they cannot access tax benefits at the national level or special credits from Banco Nación. Today both procedures are stopped,” the minister pointed out.
The head of the Buenos Aires agricultural portfolio thus referred to provincial decrees 2157/23 and 50/24. According to him, “in the case of the first, it already has a favorable recommendation from the National Commission for Agricultural Emergency and Disasters (CNEyDA) since the end of November of last year, but it has not yet been signed by the Minister of Economy of the Nation.” . At the last meeting of the Federal Agricultural Council, this was one of the topics that Rodríguez raised. “On that occasion, the response was that it was being reviewed by the AFIP,” they indicated.
“As for decree 50/24, although it was signed by Kicillof on January 17 and was immediately presented for national approval before the CNEyDA, said commission is not being convened by its head, secretary Fernando Vilella. Together, the two decrees include more than 700 producers,” the Buenos Aires ministry said.
Rodríguez was blunt about it: “With the argument that they are reviewing it, they have stopped decree 2157/23 and with it the assistance of the national government to the affected producers. Meanwhile, in relation to decree 50/24, they did not give any argument as to why they did not convene the National Agricultural Emergency Commission.”
For the Province, “The approval of the agricultural emergency by the national government would allow affected producers to access the extension of the due date of payment of taxes that levy the assets, capital or profits of the affected farms; the suspension by AFIP of the initiation of tax execution trials for the collection of taxes owed until the period following the end of the emergency or disaster period; and the possibility of deduct from the Income Tax balance 100% of the profits derived from forced sales of cattle, sheep, goats or pigs.”
On the other hand, they said that “The AFIP may also establish a total or partial exemption from the payment of the Personal Property Tax. on the assets located on agricultural farms on leased rural properties if they are located in a disaster zone, and at the same time, may determine the exemption from other taxes such as Profits, the tax component of the Monotax and contributions to Social Security.
Finally, they stressed that, after national approval, “the producers who are registered in the simplified monotax regime They will be able to enjoy the extension of the payment of the tax component and a reduction of 50% if they are included in the state of emergency and 75% if it is a disaster zone.”
