Controversy. The Buenos Aires government confirms that the increases in a tax on the countryside “correspond”By Fernando Bertello

For the Buenos Aires government, The bills that arrived to the producers for the payment of rural real estate, which is due tomorrow and the day after, “have the percentages” that correspond and are well prepared.

This is how they expressed it to this medium from the Buenos Aires Ministry of Agrarian Development, led by Javier Rodríguez. In recent days there was tension between the provincial Liaison Table and the government of Axel Kicillof because, according to the entities, there are errors and increases of even more than 500% ended up arriving. They asked that the first payment be postponed.

“The Liaison Table of the Province of Buenos Aires, made up of the Argentine Rural Society, the Argentine Agrarian Federation, Carbap and Coninagro, reiterates the request to Governor Axel Kicillof to postpone the expiration of the first installment of rural real estate given the enormous amount of inconsistencies found in the ballots issued by ARBA”, said the ruralist group.

“These irregularities in many cases exceed the limits approved in the 2024 tax law for the different scales of rural establishments. From the Buenos Aires Liaison Table we state that, if these inconsistencies are not corrected, in the Rural Real Estate Tax receipts, a state of alert will be declared, given the impossibility of producers facing such increases. “The contributory capacity of producers is exhausted, and any excessive increase will promote action against what is considered a true outrage,” added the Buenos Aires leadership.

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According to Agrarian Development, Carbap sent two invoices and an excel with the increases. Coninagro and the Argentine Agrarian Federation also sent information. The latter “were shown,” they said, that there were no errors. “They are within the law, there is nothing above 500%,” official sources told this medium. “These are the percentages that correspond,” they added.

For agriculture, there are inconsistencies in the increase

It is worth remembering that the provincial legislature approved a scale of increase according to the tax base: up to $3,544,400, 140%; up to $8,127,288, 180%; up to $19,986,324, 190% and; up to $198,940,000, a 200% increase. After $198.9 million there is no limit to increases and these have reached, according to producers, more than 500%. Strictly speaking, the 2012 valuation, made by former governor Daniel Scioli, was given a new tax base multiplied by 12.3%. From Agrarian Development they explained: “The 200% limit is applied to the fee payable.”

According to what was expressed by that public agency, if there were problems they would be resolved, but they insisted that this situation did not arise. They specified that there may be cases where some producers who had discounts due to the last drought now see, in a normal situation, a run of greater increase. “Javier is open to dialogue,” they indicated regarding Kicillof’s minister.

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Rodríguez was at the last edition of Expoagro with rural leaders. “We were at Expoagro with Rodríguez and, precisely, among the topics discussed were the increases in rural real estate, the Complementary Tax and patents, which in many cases exceed the payment capacity of taxpayers, because not only the rate was adjusted but also the tax valuations of the properties. There are increases that are almost 400%,” he said. Elbio Laucirica, president of Coninagro.

According to the leader, Rodríguez told them “that it was within what had been duly approved by the provincial Legislature.” He added: “When we gave values ​​that exceeded the approved amount in our opinion, due in part to having eliminated discounts for good taxpayers, he asked us for that information to study it.” In addition to the increase, a reduction in benefits for electronic payment and good taxpayer was applied, which for rural residents means discounts of around 15% combined.

In response to a query from this medium, the Agrarian Federation stressed that the issue “remains the same” and that is why the provincial Liaison Table insisted with the request to postpone the tax. Meanwhile, another source from the provincial Liaison Table warned: “There are already producers evaluating making judicial presentations.”

Fernando Bertello

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