The Buenos Aires Collection Agency (ARBA) will notify seven hypermarkets next Monday after having detected tax evasion maneuvers for a total of 1,500 million pesos in the year 2021 in the sale of meat, according to official sources.
Spokesmen for the agency told this agency that supermarkets La Anónima, Coto, Toledo, Makro, Jumbo, Carrefour and Changomás settled last year half of what they had to pay for the sale of meat in their stores.
According to ARBA sources in La Plata, the maneuver detected by the auditors to evade taxes was to declare aliquots for the sale of retail meats, which was half of what they would have to pay.
is that while butchers pay tax rates of 2.5%, sales of meat in supermarkets pay 5%.
The control actions began in June of last year together with the Ministry of Production in hypermarkets, wholesalers and retailers that operate in Buenos Aires territory, to detect tax evasion maneuvers, verify the transfer of merchandise and control compliance with the Care Prices program.
The operations, in which 200 agents participatedwere carried out simultaneously in supermarket chains and distributors located in La Plata, San Miguel, Vicente López, Tandil, Bahía Blanca, Mar del Plata, Martínez, Moreno, Chacabuco, Trenque Lauquen, Salto, Esteban Echeverría, Ezeiza, Ituzaingó, Munro, Moreno and General Rodríguez, among other towns in the interior, the Buenos Aires metropolitan area and also the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
The ARBA teams focused on the control of tax evasion and avoidance, analyzing, among other issues, maneuvers such as under-declaration or triangulation of income or assignment of the tax base to activities with lower tax rates than the corresponding tax returns.
