Carlos Galvan
03/28/2021 4:46 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/28/2021 4:46 PM
In a swift process that indicates the importance of the project for the ruling party
in this electoral year
, this same Sunday and after the approval by Deputies, Sergio Massa sent the reform bill on the income tax to the Senate.
The initiative was approved in general by 241 votes - there were 3 abstentions by legislators of Together for Change - shortly before 8 in the morning by Deputies.
About an hour later it was approved in the particular vote, where some changes were made to the text.
For example, the proposal of the radical
Emiliano Yacobitti
that workers can deduct from the payment of the tax the expenses in educational materials of their children.
Also another change for former presidents and former vices to pay income tax.
Senate session, last December.
Already at midmorning, Massa, president of the Deputies, sent the resolution with the text of the half-sanction to Cristina Kirchner, president of the Senate.
The text in PDF format with the norm, in addition, was sent by WhatsApp to
key figures
of the ruling bloc of the Upper House.
Senator
Carlos Caserio
-Frente de Todos-Córdoba), president of the Senate Budget committee, called this Sunday a meeting of the body for this Tuesday at 12:30 to discuss the project.
"This law will bring much relief to workers and retirees. It is a great joy to be able to comply with the Argentines and recover social justice," Caserio said this Sunday.
The intention of the ruling party is to give an opinion on the initiative as much as possible this Tuesday and leave it in a position to be approved by the campus in a session that will be held next week.
The sources consulted warned that in case something
unforeseen
arises
during the discussion, the commission's dispatch could be postponed for one day, from Tuesday to Wednesday.
Without changes
The Senate does not plan to touch a comma to the bill approved by Deputies.
"It will be like a tennis ball, we will return it as soon as it arrives," they told
Clarín
in the Frente de Todos block.
What happens, and which also confirms the rush of the ruling party to approve the law, is that the text with the changes in Earnings was
worked on
in the
mirror
in recent weeks between ruling party deputies and senators.
Massa specifically mentioned this Sunday his contacts with the head of the Frente de Todos bench, Senator José Mayans, and Caserio.
At the initiative of Caserio, for example, Deputies
retouched an article
so that the closest relatives of people incapacitated for work can deduct the tax forever (the text ordered in 2019 of the law detailed that they must be under 18 years of age).
The government's roadmap establishes that after this week's ruling, the next bill will be sanctioned by the Senate.
The session
will be on Wednesday the 7th or at the latest on Thursday the 8th, they
said on the bench of the Frente de Todos.
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