The Government acknowledged that more taxpayers than the estimated 9,300 will pay the wealth tax

11/19/2020 8:55 PM

• Clarín.com

• Economy

Updated 11/19/2020 8:55 PM

After

obtained half a sanction in the

, the Government acknowledged that more taxpayers than the estimated 9,300 will pay the wealth tax.

"For this tax it is going to have to

and present what the patrimony is," said the head of the

(AFIP), Mercedes Marcó del Pont.

In dialogue with

, the official said that there will be differences with the mid-year presentation of Personal Assets "due to the valuation of those assets."

And he acknowledged that

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From these final numbers - reported the Telam agency - it could emerge that the number of taxpayers who

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Regarding criticism of the project, Marcó del Pont said that

The contribution does not affect production. It falls on the wealth of the individuals that is financed."

"Nor will it be necessary for them to sell the fields. We observe that those human persons who declare rural properties and must pay the contribution, their fields represent an average of 2.7% of their patrimony.

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The official pointed out that "the reduction of the more progressive taxes that the previous government implemented did not result in more investment and employment.

In a hot session and with the seal of Máximo Kirchner -ideological author of the project and promoter of its treatment-, the ruling party gave him a half sanction yesterday, Wednesday at dawn, for the Extraordinary Contribution to the Great Fortunes and

It is a new tax that reaches people with assets greater than

and that received strong criticism from business sectors and the countryside, to which AEA has now joined.

According to Clarín, the president of the Senate Budget and Finance committee, the Cordovan Peronist Carlos Caserio, has already summoned the members of that committee to discuss the wealth tax bill next Tuesday at 3:00 p.m.

He did it through a single-page memo.

The official plan is to raise about $ 300,000 million.

The collection of this contribution will be allocated 20% to the purchase and / or production

, 20% to SMEs, 15% to programs for the development of popular neighborhoods, 20% to scholarships to the comprehensive Progresar scholarship program and 25% to natural gas exploration and development programs, through Enarsa, as established by the project.

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