2023-09-19 23:07:35
The debate for modification of the Income Tax It lasted for long hours in the Chamber of Deputies. In a context of high tension between the ruling party and the opposition, Unión por la Patria managed to obtain the necessary quorum to discuss the minister’s project. Sergio Massa.
The Rio Negro Luis Di Giacomo (JSRN) and the neuquino Rolando Figueroa (MPN), They were two of the parliamentarians who stole the spotlight during the special session. Although they showed their support for the initiative, they proposed some solutions to correct the drop in provincial revenuesaffected by the elimination of the fourth category.
«We are going to support this project because basically – from a legal, philosophical and methodological point of view – salary is not profit.. The salary is what a person earns with his or her labor force by producing a profit for the person who has the means of production. This, which some even point out as capital gains, speaks clearly to the fact that we cannot impose it as a tax on the person who produces the profit for the third party,” Di Giacomo, representing the Interblock Provincia Unidas, began explaining.
And then he added: «For this conceptual reason we are going to support this project, beyond the moment in which it is taking place, beyond electoral questions. As if it were not valid within the rules of Democracy to mobilize all possible resources to win the vote and the popular will.
Much of the speech by the representative of Together We Are Río Negro focused on questioning the criticism made by a sector of Together for Change. This following the deputy Luciano Laspina spoke regarding a certain “nexus” between the “neighborhood parties, the left and anarcholiberalism» with the ruling party to achieve a quorum.
«Unfortunately I have to go into some assessments that were made by some deputies who today are opposing this project. Every time I’m hearing them scream a little louder. It seems that frustration is losing them. I am not going to accept that they put us as if we were all part of the same bag to the small blocksbecause those of us who integrate the small blocks we are provincial representatives. We are representatives who came here elected by the people,” he stated.
???? From JSRN we decided to accompany the project to modify the Income Tax, because we adhere to the belief that “salary is not profit.”
But we do not let ourselves be ignored by those who decide to oppose this initiative and promote criticism once morest… pic.twitter.com/FzJRlY2g71
— Luis Di Giacomo (@DiGiacomoLuis) September 19, 2023
In addition, he was in charge of specifying that the removal of the fourth category Profits produces important consequences for the resources of the provinces, because it is a co-participating tax. «It means a significant loss of income for the provinces. In Río Negro this year we can lose between 5,000 and 6,000 million and next year we are going to lose 14,000 million«, he expressed.
Regarding this he proposed «“do not generate new taxes”, but to advance in a redistribution of those that already exist. For this reason, the JSRN bloc decided to support the initiative presented by Rolando Figueroa to make the check tax co-shareable.
Profits: what was Figueroa’s position
The elected governor of Neuquén also supported the initiative and expressed his discomfort at being branded as part of a “neighborhood party.”
«We want to leave some statements regarding what happens at least for us with this tax. From a technical point of view, there would be some issues to improve in this modification. In our opinion, andThe best project is the one that several of the neighborhood representatives presented to this venue, where the progressivity of the tax and several other virtues might clearly be established.«, Figueroa began his intervention.
The importance of politics lies in being able to provide solutions to people, that is why we are convinced in supporting this bill, because we have been saying it for a long time: salary is not profit#SalaryIsNotProfit pic.twitter.com/9wyU3VhdV8
— Rolo Figueroa (@Rolo_Figueroa) September 19, 2023
Regarding the criticism of Together for Change for supporting the project, he said: “They treat us in a pejorative way, either because we come from the provinces or because we are from a provincial party. We know how to understand what the workers need and our political vision is that salary is not profit, because the workers of this neighborhood province are the ones who, for example, today allow us to have light in this area. or they allow us to have heating. The comment was in reference to the fact that a good part of the oil sector will benefit from the modification of Profits.
Finally, Figueroa maintained that a way would have to be found to compensate for the consequences of this measure for provincial funds. «Little is said regarding the Argentine provinces and the different transfers of our original tax rights. We have been left out, for example, of being able to collect withholdings on exports. But we have sought a way around it, so that from the check law, 30% can finance what the provinces end up losing with this good sanction,” stood out.
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