2023-05-28 03:15:00
Neuquén taxpayers face increasing obstacles to comply with their tax obligations, due to various reasons. Every year the province starts an average of ten thousand actions (there were peaks of 15,000) known as rewards for collect debts by court. The State’s lawyer is Raúl Gaitán, who receives fees for this task. and this month They granted him a significant increase, which the taxpayers themselves will have to pay out of pocket.
Black river published, on May 7, an X-ray of the State Attorney’s Office, the body that 28 years ago, headed by Raúl Gaitán. It is unknown How much earnif you pay Income Tax, how many lawyers work at your service and if you distribute the fees among them and with what criteria. At his request, since did not agree to an interviewthese and other questions were sent to him in writing, which he promised to answer no later than Tuesday the 9th. hasn’t done it yet.
The publication did not arouse any reaction in political environments, not even a legislator submitted a request for information, that placebo with which they feign concern. So, that mass of money that is handled far from public view continues in the dark.
Even Governor-elect Rolando Figueroa, dodged definitions when this medium asked him in an interview: «It is a subject in which I have not gotten involved. We have to see how it worked, how it is, how the judgments are made. Must see”answered.
With power and contacts
Gaitán is a powerful man, who has built a solid network of contacts in the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, the Judiciary, the Municipality of Neuquén, the Bar Association, among other areas where it exerts strong influence and located officials that respond to it.
In addition, his second in the prosecution, Alejo Bolan Reina, is the son of Zulma Reina, who was elected provincial legislator for the Community party, led by Rolando Figueroa.
His brother Facundo Gaitán was an official of Jorge Sapag and now presides over the Plottier Electric Cooperative, which was the focus of the Environmental Crimes Prosecutor for the case of the transformers with the PCB contaminant. The mayor of the city is Gloria Ruiz, Elected Lieutenant Governor of Figueroa. He threatened to appear as a plaintiff in the investigation, but at most it will only be court friend.
The butterfly Effect
In the X-ray published on May 7, it was stated that just for the urgencythe State Attorney had a potential source of fees of one billion pesos a year. That number is outdated. Now it’s much bigger.
On May 19, the Superior Court of Justice officially reported on the increment of the value «jus»the unit of tariff measurement that represents 1% of the salary of a judge of first instance.
The increase was due to the fact that the Legislature enacted Law 3375, which sets new salaries for the judiciary from Neuquen.
From May 1 the jus trades at 13,146.32 pesos, 34% more that when the report was published Black river. This exerts a butterfly effect on Gaitán’s fees.
How fees are calculated
As explained on that occasion, in the pressures initiated by the State Prosecutor’s Office to collect from delinquents in the province, regardless of the amount to start the claim (which in the vast majority do not exceed 50,000 pesos), there is a fee Minimum that the taxpayer pays that is from 7 jus, and they go into the lawyer’s pocket.
at 7 jus 40% is added if, in addition to proxy, the professional is a sponsor (The sources consulted said that the attorney varies, but the sponsor would always be Gaitán).
Therefore, for each judgment, whatever the amountfrom May 1 it is regulated a minimum of 128,831.58 pesos of fees. That figure is paid by the neighbor to Gaitán; the capital and interest for the debt that originated the lawsuit they are received by the relevant body.
there will be more adjustments
This values They will have more adjustments in the remainder of the year. In August and November they will be “equal to the Consumer Price Index (CPI)” of the respective previous month. The text of the approved law says: «the index to be applied will be made up of the monthly selection between the CPI —National—, the CPI —Patagonia Region—, both elaborated and published by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) and the CPI of the province of Neuquén prepared and published by the Provincial Directorate of Statistics and Censuses».
It also contemplates that “in April, July and October 2023 and January 2024 (end of quarter), the percentage awarded will be updated (…) with the evolution of the CPI of the remaining months, calculated in each case on the salaries earned on the last day of the immediately preceding month”.
In this way, fees will follow the rise of the CPI, for the concern of those who lose the constraints. if the state cannot be made of fresh money, seizes the debtor’s assets and auctions them off.
Projects to modify it
Projects to modify the perception of State Attorney fees They were always presented by the opposition and suffered the same fate: the file.
From which the then provincial legislators Alicia Gillone, Raúl Radonich and Oscar Massei signed in 1996followed by that of Soledad Martínez and Paula Sánchez in 2009up to the most recent one by Lorena Parrilli who joined last yearnone had a consensus for their treatment.
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