The President of the Nation, Alberto Fernández, will lead this Monday the presentation of the Unexpected Income project for those companies that have had extraordinary profits from the increase in international prices derived from the war between Russia and Ukraine.
The announcement will be at 5:00 p.m. in the Casa Rosada Bicentennial Museum room, official sources reported this Sunday night.
The president will be accompanied by the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán, who announced the initiative on April 18, during a ceremony held in the White Room of the Government House.
At that time, The minister explained that it would be an aliquot that will focus on a set of companies with high taxable net profits of more than 1,000 million pesos, which in 2021 covered only 3.2% of companies.
The criteria for imposing the rate include that the real taxable net income must have grown significantly in 2022 compared to 2021 and, in addition, a parameter will be included so that if the unexpected income is channeled towards productive reinvestment, the rate will be less.
The ministers’ agenda
The Chief of Staff, Juan Manzur, together with the Minister of Education, Jaime Perczyk, and the president of the Federation of Family Grande Hogar de Cristo Neighborhood Centers, José María Di Paola, will sign an agreement this Monday at 12 noon to generate educational activities that favor the school re-engagement of the population in a situation of social vulnerability.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Daniel Filmus, will sign a Cooperation Agreement at 3:30 p.m. for the creation of the “Franco-Argentine Award for Public Communication of Science: Women Scientists Who Count”, at the Cultural Center of the Science, in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
And at 4:15 p.m., Dr. Alberto Kornblihtt, recently elected member of the French Academy of Sciences, and Drs. María Florencia Cayrol and Alicia Dickenstein, who will receive in France the L’Oréal-UNESCO Award “For Women in the Science”.
The Minister of Defense, Jorge Taiana, will lead the act for the 143rd anniversary of the Naval Hydrography Service at 11 am.
At 1 pm, he will meet with the Argentine delegate to the Administrative Commission of the Uruguay River (CARU), Hernán Orduna, and at 4 pm he will receive the Canadian ambassador to Argentina, Reid Douglas Sirrs.
