NEW WEALTH TAX?
In the past few weeks, the media has been talking about the government and its plan to create a new wealth tax. This tax is being driven by Carlos Heller and Máximo Kirchner, both official deputies. This topic has awakened a lot of speculation about law projects and proposals that the government might present, but the only thing we know about it is that a lot of people isn´t very happy with it. This “tax to the fortunes” will be applied to physical persons who have more than $200 million pesos. They will have to pay around a 2% and a 3,5% and, resources say, this would represent an income of around $3000 dollars to the government. Although this measure will affect only 12000 argentines, a lot of people is opposing to it because they say it’s unfair and it will discourage the external investors to come to the country. In the other hand, the government defends the action arguing that it is being evaluated in a lot of countries and it is a necessary tool to confront the pandemic effects in the economy.
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This article has been written by BAUTISTA Luka, GONZÁLEZ Matías and PAREDES Iván.