06/26/2021 4:42 PM
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 06/28/2021 7:23 AM
Accountants are
working around the clock
to settle June salaries with the new Income Tax parameters.
The law established not only that the floor from which the tax is paid is raised to $ 150,000, but also modified the way of accounting for that floor: the gross salary for the month is taken and the monthly average accumulated in the year is also considered.
According to the professionals, the seminars that consultants such as PwC or KPMG did these days to
clear up doubts
were in high demand and on Friday the Professional Council of Economic Sciences sent a letter to the AFIP requesting "
certain clarifications of controversial aspects in order to properly liquidate the workers' tax
, thus providing peace of mind to taxpayers and professionals who advise them ”.
For their part,
several business chambers that bring together large companies will request an extension
to the application of the new law
from the AFIP on Monday
.
And some companies are surveying the unions to warn that the liquidations are getting complicated and
may not be ready
this month.
“We are asking for clarifications because there are issues that have different interpretations.
For now we will not request an extension because it is a benefit for the workers
who have been waiting for months and due to the delay in the treatment of the norm and its regulation, only now will they be able to receive the relief ", recognizes Gabriela Russo, head of the Council.
"In the event that the adjustments in the systems are not reached to settle with all the changes (this
is what is happening
in general), I understand
it will be adjusted in the coming months," he
adds.
Companies have to pay the June salary already without the tax to those who earn less than $ 150,000.
But they must also
pay the half bonus
- which is not reached if the salary is not reached either - and in July they must
return the first of the 5 installments
with the taxes that they withheld "more" between January and May, since the floor governs retroactively from the first day of 2021.
But there are large companies that carry out the settlements automatically through management systems and the technology firms that develop these systems
have not yet delivered the "patch" with the changes in the scales.
Is that the AFIP regulation
was published on June 15,
almost three months after the law was approved.
And
not even the collecting body came to adjust its own systems:
for example, despite the fact that the new law allows concubines to be deducted, this possibility
is not yet contemplated in the SIRADIG form 572
, which only has the option of "spouse ”.
"There are companies that have already paid the bonus and although in theory they did not have to withhold the tax, they did so because it
was impossible to implement the changes in such a short time,
" says the accountant of one of the largest companies, for whom the AFIP formulas "They look like those of Coca-Cola:
the employees are not going to be able to understand what held them back
."
“
It is very complex to parameterize everything
and it is true that companies are not being able to settle June salaries and the Christmas bonus with the new methodology,” says Sebastián M Domínguez, partner at SDC Asesores Tributarios.
"The truth is that the settlement of the tax on employees
became Kafkaesque
, very complicated, because in variable remunerations the tax may not be paid in some months and in other months the floor of $ 150,000 is exceeded and they have to pay it and that has repercussions on the bonus as well, ”said César Litvin, from the Lisicki, Litvin y Asociados study.
The taxpayer maintains that
many companies will end up doing the liquidation manually if they do not have so many workers
, but that it would be impossible if they employed more than 50 people, in addition to the fact that "there would be
an impressive margin of error."
In some large companies, he says, although it is not ideal, surely the companies will give their staff
a salary advance
and then - when they have the systems working - they will calculate the deductions well.
Another option may be that companies
do not withhold salaries of less than $ 150,000 gross
, which would be technologically feasible, but do not apply the special tables to those who charge between $ 150,000 and $ 173,000 until they have the updated systems.
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