Next Wednesday, the Vice President of the Nation, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, will receive the directors of the Association of Magistrates and Officials of the National Justice (AMFJN) in the Senate. This meeting arises from the request for an audience that they made to present their point of view on the project that integrates them into the income tax.
In the discussion about ProfitsAlso present will be the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Cecilia Moreau, who received a note from the head of the union and political entity of federal and national justice. That judges and court officials pay the tax was included in the 2023 Budget.
After the lower chamber (deputies) deals with the Project of Budget 2023, which begins to be debated on Tuesday, there will be a strike of judicial workers. This is due to the attempt to include in the income tax to justice workers.
In addition, the AMFJN had a meeting that began at 5:00 p.m. with the Budget Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation, to discuss the proposal of the deputy Marcelo Casaretto, of the Front of All (FdT): add all the members of the Judiciary to the tax.
In his defense, the magistrate and president of AMFJN, Marcelo Gallo Tagle, explained that article 110 of the Constitution speaks of “intangibility.” “It is forbidden to include in the budget law this type of regulation that affects a taxbeyond other issues of a constitutional nature that affect this project.”
The official article that integrates the Judiciary to Profits
“In the case of the Magistrates, Officials and Employees of the Judicial Power of the Nation and of the provinces and of the Public Ministry of the Nation, All of their income will be included in taxable income, regardless of the date of their appointment, and for all the items that make up their remuneration.”enunciated the article that includes judges and justice workers to income tax.
Beyond the approval of the project, it is known that judges seek to avoid this obligation by declaring it unconstitutional on the spot.
