Jasmine Bullorini
07/15/2021 9:58 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/15/2021 10:43 AM
The Senate meets this Thursday, starting at 2:00 p.m., to make law the new Biofuels regime and the changes to the Monotax scales.
In addition, they will ratify the DNU issued by Alberto Fernández that modified the Vaccine Law, and that had been questioned by Máximo Kirchner.
Last week, under pressure, the Energy and Budget commissions ruled on the new Biofuels regime, promoted by Máximo and the Ministry of Energy.
Although he managed to advance, the senators of the ruling party raised the need to continue discussing changes.
However, it is expected that this Thursday it will be voted as it came from Deputies, under the promises of tweaks in the regulation by the Executive.
The initiative establishes a reduction of the biodiesel mix in diesel from 10% to 5%, which may even go down to 3%, and opens the door to a reduction from the current 12% to 9% in the case of bioethanol.
The regime expired in May, the government had to extend it 60 days by decree, but since it failed to approve the project before, it has now extended it again until August, or until the new law takes effect.
The upper house will also make changes to the Monotax into law.
The text backtracks with the retroactive adjustment of quotas, extends billing ceilings and provides facilities to regularize debts.
The rule establishes that the quotas for the months of January to June 2021 are retroactive to the values of December 2020. Thus, the increase of 35.3% in the values of the quotas retroactive to January is not applied, which already had generated debts.
In turn, the projected increase in the scales in relation to 2020 starts with a rise of 77.3% in category A to 41.8% in category K, exceeding the interannual inflation of last year (36.1 %).
It is estimated that with the new scales, the majority will downgrade and pay a lower fee.
The measure affects the 4 million monotributistas in the country, according to official data, and once approved it must be dealt with by the Senate.
The DNU of vaccines
The Senate will ratify the decree issued by Alberto Fernández to modify the Vaccine Law and thus be able to close agreements with Pfizer and Moderna.
That issue generated a tense cross between Fernández and Máximo Kirchner last week.
The head of the block of the Frente de Todos en Diputados had been critical of the chief of staff, Santiago Cafiero.
"I do not want a country that is a toy of circumstances or that has to give in to the whims of foreign laboratories
that with great pettiness always seek to bend the arm of the Government and also of this Congress," he said, adding: "Because if a laboratory it forced us to change the whole scaffolding, how are we going to do with the IMF ".
Although without mentioning it, the President replied: "If someone expects me to give in to creditors or laboratories, they are wrong, I am not going to do it, I will go home first."
However, the DNU was dealt with in the bicameral Legislative Procedure, all the legislators of the Frente de Todos, were in favor and it is expected that this Thursday it will be ratified by the block in the upper house.