Lucia Salinas
07/23/2020 - 13:30
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Máximo Kirchner's lawyer, Carlos Beraldi, informed the Federal Oral Court 5 (TOF 5) that he is in charge of the Hotesur and Los Sauces cases - the two family businesses investigated for money laundering - that as a result of the judicial intervention ordered in the Condominium that manages the properties of the inheritance of Néstor Kirchner, the national deputy "accumulated fiscal debts for the breach on the part of the judicial intervention". For this reason, he decided to avail himself of a moratorium but requests that the corresponding fees be paid with funds obtained by the intervention and deposited in his account so that he can cancel them month by month.
The "Máximo y Florencia Kirchner Condominium" manages 25 properties that were the product of Néstor Kirchner's estate succession. After Cristina Kirchner gave up her assets to her children in March 2016, the national deputy remained as the owner of 50% of said conformation that exploits the inherited properties.
In the framework of the Los Sauces case - the family real estate agency investigated for money laundering - Judge Claudio Bonadio decided in 2016 to intervene not only the company but also the Condominium. Since then, Ms. Raquel Moyano has been in charge of the administration of this entire universe of properties.
Máximo Kirchner is the owner of fifty percent of each of the assets that make up the Condominium. For this reason, it has tax obligations corresponding to personal property tax . In addition, as a result of the rental of these properties, "in recent years, tax obligations have been accrued in respect of VAT and Profits", explained the lawyer Beraldi, who recalled that the rentals of the properties managed by Los Sauces "were and are received by Lic. Moyano ".
Then, he explained that the leader of La Cámpora "was dispossessed of his properties, he cannot take advantage of them and the funds collected by his location are managed by an auxiliary of justice; on the other hand, our client must bear large tax burdens that are a direct consequence and immediate of the registry ownership of real estate from which it was stripped (Personal Assets) and of a commercial activity that, in the current situation, does not yield any revenue (VAT and Profits) ".
As a consequence of this situation, his defense argued that Máximo Kirchner "throughout the last fiscal years accumulated debts with the national treasury , as a consequence of the failure by the judicial intervener to pay in time and form the taxes corresponding to the patrimony that administers ",
This resulted in a series of executive proceedings initiated against Máximo Kirchner by the Treasury, and he asked that the intervener "cancel the tax balances owed with the funds he administers. But such request was rejected, in our opinion, unfoundedly." The Justice said that the national deputy had to face with his income the payment of said fiscal debts, however, the defense indicated that, as they appealed until reaching the Court for this matter, "it is not firm" that Máximo Kirchner must face to those tax debts.
For this reason, he decided to avail himself of a tax moratorium, which allows debts to be regularized as income tax and Personal Assets, among other taxes. It is a general moratorium, "that is, a right that assists all taxpayers who comply with the objective and subjective conditions established in the articles of the regulation, whose validity extends until July 31, 2020" , explains the writing.
Máximo Kirchner made the decision to "regularize his fiscal situation within the framework of said moratorium , in order to avoid greater evils. Specifically, the obligations to regularize are those detailed in the annex that accompanies this presentation."
The fact is that, in order to "not frustrate access to the moratorium in question," the defense requested that Raquel Moyano be instructed "so that, with the funds she manages as" intervener "of the" Condominio Máximo Carlos Kirchner y Florencia Kirchner ”, cancel the installments of the payment plan that will be consolidated or, where appropriate, transfer month by month the amount corresponding to a bank account of Máximo Kirchner -or that of his attorney-, from which the pertinent debits will be made" .