08/12/2021 15:55
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/12/2021 3:55 PM
In a curious radio crossing of more than 45 minutes, the first candidate for national deputy for the Frente de Todos in Buenos Aires, Victoria Tolosa Paz, and Ricardo López Murphy, candidate for deputies of the United Republican space within Juntos por el Cambio en the City, debated the official proposal to raise taxes on large companies.
It was a long debate, in which
the Chicanas were not lacking
.
"From the beginning of the administration, we proposed to strengthen our tax matrix with a progressive character and have a very strong attitude in times of pandemic, of a public investment that expands spending to sustain the time of pandemic and boost the economy," Tolosa said Paz in dialogue with
Radio Con Vos
and remarked that the government
"has a progressive tax matrix"
and that "95% of SMEs pay less taxes than during Mauricio Macri's administration."
With the journalist Ernesto Tenembaum as moderator,
the debate lasted about 45 minutes
and López Murphy replied: "Argentina has an
exaggerated tax regime that generates a discouragement to investment
. This is seen when you raise taxes and the country suffers a company exit process linked, among other things, to excessive tax pressure. But it is not the only problem we have with our system. The other is that approximately half of the people work in informality, which has lower productivity as a characteristic. ".
The economist Ricardo López Murphy, candidate for the porteño intern of Together for the Change for the United Republicans space.
López Murphy, who competes against the list headed by María Eugenia Vidal and Adolfo Rubisntein, added to his diagnosis at the beginning: "It must be remembered that the personal property tax was lowered in order to attract assets that were not declared to Argentina. That tax was going to drop to an aliquot of 0.25. Now, it has been multiplied by nine and at the same time a tax on investment or misnamed wealth was charged, which brought that tax rate to extravagant levels. What I observe is that
many entrepreneurs have moved their activities and headquarters to other countries
. So there is a loss of companies, a bias towards informality, a weakening of social security and unfulfilled promises. "
Next, the official candidate responded: "Macri believed that by lowering taxes he would bring investments and
the investments did not appear,
" added Tolosa Paz and pointed out that the management of Cambiemos "modified the aliquots of Personal Assets - the tax that is levied on wealth and income. equity - assuming that would attract investment and the result was the loss of 225,000 formal jobs. "
And he continued: "In these 18 months of pandemic we have managed to lower the burden for both 95% of companies and workers, who today generate consumption and reactivate production and job demand. We collect more thanks to the Country Tax, We modified the personal property tax, as well as the income tax rates so that 95% of SMEs now pay less than in the Macri government. "
Chicanas
López Murphy stated that "Cristina's finger (Fernández de Kirchner) is the one that decides who pays more or less taxes," and argued that the current economic recovery responds to the fact that "the fall was resounding as a result of a
medieval quarantine
that destroyed the activity ".
But in addition, he asked for "equality before the law" in tax matters.
In this regard, Tolosa Paz stated: "We started the pandemic in the subsoil in economic, tax and productive terms, with the destruction of formal employment and downsizing of the State.
There is no Cristina finger here, but a government team
that wants to establish a tax administration because Argentina has enormous tax evasion problems. "
"We are not barbarous, but we are on a path of economic recovery and I see with great hope what is happening in the industrial sector: branches such as automotive, metalworking, steel, plastics, footwear, textiles, software and knowledge are improving," said Tolosa Paz, who reminded López Murphy of his time at the Ministry of Economy in the government of Fernando De la Rúa and the adjustment in public universities.
At the end, López Murphy returned to chicanery: "If we get to Congress, we are going to reduce the tax pressure on investment and employment. We believe that in this way we are going to recover work and production and not finance increasing levels of dependence on the State of a large part of our population. We will also combat evasion, for example, that the (Lázaro) Báez have had from this world. "
With information from the Télam Agency
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