The Government of the City of Buenos Aires (GCBA), directed by Horacio Rodriguez Larretawon the legal fight against the National Government regarding the removal of a percentage of the co-participation received by the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA).
When Mauricio Macri was president of the Nation, he increased the amount that CABA received for co-participation from 1.40 to 3.75% through decree 194/2016. This act of the former president was considered arbitrary by the management of Alberto Fernández in 2020, for which reason he decided to cut the co-participation value towards CABA by more than one percentage point. Today, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta wins the legal dispute that allows the head of government of CABA have more resources.
It was due to the cut managed by Fernández through the opinion of decree 735 in September 2020 and, later, by national law 27,606 in December of the same year, that the government of Horacio Rodriguez Larreta He sent two causes for the aforementioned withdrawal of resources. The Supreme Court of Justice had to intervene and it ruled in favor of the GCBA.
The head of government of CABA It then decided, today, to announce that it will eliminate the 1.2% tax on credit card expenses that it had established after the reduction of the co-participation to better face the reduction of resources.
“We made an effort from politics, we lowered rents, contracts, we postponed planned works and we managed to compensate half of the removal. We lowered public spending, but it was not enough. It was there that I made one of the most difficult decisions as head of government and we created a consumption tax on credit cards. We did it from the front, putting the face. We had no alternative, we were in the middle of the pandemic,” Rodríguez Larreta said at a press conference.
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It should be noted that the head of government of CABA has run for president for elections of this nature in 2023, which is why he used this judicial triumph and tax cuts to take advantage of the opponents that could arise in his own political space.
Larreta said: “I could have responded to the withdrawal as many other traditional politicians would have done: insulting, going out to fight, victimizing myself, breaking all relations with the national government. But yelling doesn’t solve problems. It was demonstrated that the institutional path gives results”.
