Tensions over spending management remain firm within the ruling coalition.
This Monday the new head of advisers to President Alberto Fernández, Antonio Aracre, slipped that to correct this discussion and until the growth of the economy is achieved,
"a new tribute" could be created
.
Immediately, Alejandro Topo Rodríguez, also a pro-government deputy, came out to the crossroads and assured:
"Congress will not approve any new tax."
In an interview with the newspaper La Nación Aracre, he decided to take part in the discussion on deficit management and stated: "Of course spending can be made more efficient, but until we grow and the taxable base is high enough for revenue support that expense,
don't we have to look for some new tribute?"
"We can be more progressive to be able to generate that collection or we simply have to look with the ax at who we are going to punish and cut back to reach that balance. Those are the models that are at stake," said the former CEO of Syngenta.
The idea of increasing the tax burden at a time when the business sector was on alert since they believe that the tax pressure will increase in this electoral year, generated noise within the ruling party and immediately the Lavagnista deputy Alejandro "Topo" Rodriguez left to the crossroads on Twitter.
"Congress will not approve any new tax.
Our Zero Income Tax project is still in force, for 3 years,
for #MiPyMEs that reinvest their profits in capital goods," he said in a message on that social network.
The chief of presidential advisers, far from stopping the discussion, answered him again: "
What do you think of taxing unexpected income due to a pandemic and/or war on large companies?
"
Aracre brought his business past into this discussion, since in the ruling party's discourse "unexpected income" was not a new tax nor did it raise the country's tax burden.
Rodriguez's response was not long in coming and he assured that in the case of the tax on large fortunes,
what the Government did was "reduce taxes" on small and medium-sized companies.
Unlike his predecessors at the Casa Rosada, who kept a low profile, Aracre is an active user of Twitter and with a presence in the media.
When he left the presidency of Syngenta, after 36 years in the corporate sector, he had said in journalistic statements:
“If Alberto calls me tomorrow, I'm here.
If Larreta wins next year, too."
Two months later he had closed an agreement to be one of the closest men in the President's day to day.
Aracre has already had crosses with different sectors of the ruling party, including Pablo Moyano and Juan Grabois.
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