In advance of the debate on the projects of Base Law and tax reform that will begin to be discussed this Tuesday in a plenary session of three committees in the Senate, the governor of Chubut, Ignacio Torres, anticipated that the Patagonian blocks “They are going to vote against Profits” and delved into the importance of that “the unfavorable zone item” be contemplated andn the non-taxable minimum of the tax.
“There is this myth of abundance and when you see the numbers it is real, we are the provinces that contribute the most and yet we have serious infrastructure shortcomings in works that should be national for access to water. Comodoro Rivadavia would have to be Dubai, contributing more than US$300,000 million in the last 100 years and there are neighborhoods that do not have access to drinking water,” said Torres in dialogue with Radio with you.
“There are many points that we are in favor of the Law, but Ganancias we are going to vote against it, precisely because it does not contemplate these asymmetries. What were we Patagonians asking for? That the unfavorable zone item be considered in the taxable minimum. For something as simple as contemplating that the cost of living here is much higher,” said the Chubut president.
“The truth is that it did not have a representative fiscal cost for the Government either. It is precisely an act of justice for the provinces that contribute the most in terms of profits in the fourth category in relation to the rest of the country,” Torres added in this regard.
In that sense, the president of Chubut anticipated that the 18 Patagonian senators would reject the Profits chapter within the fiscal package project that will begin to be discussed this Tuesday in committees. “What we have to see is if they are modified and the law returns to Deputies in its entirety or only that article or if it can be modified in the regulations,” said Torres.
On the other hand, the governor referred to the conflict that he had with the Nation months ago over co-participating funds that ended up in court. “I think there was a learning curve from the Government, but it helped us a lot, it united us because there is still a common cause in Patagonia, with this thing of defending what is ours”considered the governor of Pro.
“And beyond the attacks, the most worrying thing, what incensed us the most was precisely to question or put in check this thing about the provinces spending everything and it is the opposite, that is Chubut contributes 100, receives only 40 and I think that Justice finally ended up agreeing with us”Torres highlighted, while He asked the Argentine leadership for “sufficient maturity to separate party dogmas” from personal issues.
“I see a lot of meanness on the part of a part of the political carrion that wants to build power based on the other’s doing poorly,” he concluded in this regard.