He federal administrator of Public Revenue, Carlos Castagnetoassured that from the AFIP they detected “29% of workers with irregularities, not registered or badly invoiced”within the framework of Operative Summer.
Castagneto specified, in statements to FM La Patriada, that the Summer Operation took place “in 17 provinces, through 8,500 controls in goods and services businesses, focused on gastronomy and tourism.”
“The AFIP is on the streets working together with provincial and national organizations,” said the official, who He pointed out that in the framework of these controls, “almost 29% of workers with irregularities, not registered or badly invoiced” were detected..
In addition, he said that together with the Gendarmerie they signed an agreement because “in these months they have seized a lot of merchandise of a different nature: clothing, slot machines, drugs, grains, in order to fight against smuggling crimes.”
About He stressed that “there are places with a lot of risk and we want protection for the personnel”, and affirmed that they are going to deepen customs control.
“With a satellite system we are going to countries and different sectors of the economy where we are seeing some places declared as not planted and they are,” added Castagneto.
Likewise, he maintained that “it is a myth that Argentina is a country where there is more tax pressure”, and assured that “in several European countries it is much higher”.
Along these lines, he argued that “When the right says that we don’t pay more taxes, it means that there are no more hospitals or public schools, medicines for the PAMI”.
“Let’s be realistic, people should not be underestimated, electoral campaigns have to be serious and conscious. The same ones who say that are the ones who indebted the country to the IMF with a debt that is very difficult to pay,” concluded the head of AFIP.
