The Front of All will seek this Wednesday to issue an opinion in a commission of the Chamber of Deputies in favor of the Fiscal Consensus signed between the National Executive Power and 21 provinces administered by the ruling party and the opposition, whose The objective is to seek agreements on tax policies, as well as to achieve balance in the control of tax evasion throughout the country.
The Budget Commission – led by FDT deputy Carlos Heller – was summoned to 2:00 p.m. to analyze the initiative sanctioned in the Senate where the agreement between President Alberto Fernández and 21 governors of the ruling party, radicalism, of Córdoba Federal is ratified , of Together for Rio Negro, of the Misiones Concord Front, and of the Neuquén Popular Movement.
The only jurisdictions that did not adhere They were San Luis, La Pampa and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, governed by the leader of PRO, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
sources of ruling party were confident in that this Wednesday they will obtain the majority in the signature of the office and tThey will have the numbers to convert the signed Fiscal Consensus into law last December in the session that could be held on August 31.
The FDT bench – chaired by Germán Martínez – is optimistic in light of the results obtained in the Senate, where not only the ruling party voted in favor of the ruling, but also the provincial legislators who answer to the leaders of Rio Negro, Misiones, Córdoba, and even the radicals who respond to the governors of Jujuy, Gerardo Morales, and Corrientes, Gustavo Valdés.
The Front of All has 117 votes and hopes to add the votes of the four legislators from the United Provinces, one from the MPN, three from Córdoba, and they hope that they will accompany the 2 legislators from Jujuy and 2 from Corrientes and Mendoza, as well as other radicals from other districts as happened in the Senate.
The initiative in the upper house obtained 45 votes in favor17 against and one abstention, expressed by the head of the Together for Change interblock, Alfredo Cornejo, whose province did sign the pact.
What does the Tax Consensus propose?
The federal agreement seeks the implementation of an articulated tax policy and administration between all the participating jurisdictions, so that the different decisions are adopted within a framework of legal stability while ensuring tax harmonization.
Another goal is to strengthen the autonomy of the provinces by providing legal stability to governments and taxpayers with respect to provincial taxes.
The new tax consensus provides that the Gross Income rates should not be higher than those established for each activity and ratifies the decision to analyze in 2022 the possibility of legislating on an inheritance tax.
It also contains a chapter called “responsible indebtedness”, which determines that the provinces may increase the stock of debt denominated in foreign currency only through financing lines with bilateral or multilateral credit organizations and that in terms of “fiscal responsibility” establishes that “The spending growth limit rule will be governed in all cases by the increase in GDP,” among other issues.
