The Government will exempt from Profits the additional wages of more than 600,000 workers

The Government, through the Minister of Economy,

, decided to move forward with

from the payment of

a series of

common to workers of different activities, in an attempt to alleviate the impact of the tax and thereby raise the real percentage of the salary increases agreed in parities.

The decision, which

to which a joint resolution of the Economy and AFIP will later be added, will benefit some

who, due to the exemption of a series of additional tax will have an

, according to the Executive's estimates.

The determination to advance with the benefit constitutes a response to the

personally transmitted in recent days to Massa so that the tax exemptions of additional agreements recently granted to various unions are extended to all workers reached by Gains. as reported in a timely manner

.

"The idea transmitted to everyone is that what we were resolving in some particular cases

through an opinion from the SSIP and a resolution from the Economy and AFIP," they confirmed to this newspaper from the Palacio de Hacienda and recalled that the concern to reduce the impact of earnings on salaries "was always the minister's agenda."

In the last two weeks, Massa met to discuss the measure and its scope with the leaders Hugo Moyano, Héctor Daer, Gerardo Martínez, Andrés Rodríguez, José Luis Lingeri and Ricardo Pignanelli, in addition to unionists from the oil sector, among others.

Sergio Massa transmitted to the heads of the CGT the scope of the benefit that the Government will announce.

The scope of the new tax benefit

Next Monday the head of the SSIP, Claudia Balestrini, will issue the opinion that will determine the scope of the exceptions that will later be endorsed by a resolution.

As the official sources consulted anticipated to

, the new benefit will be extended to

agreements: in the first place, the supplements for

or concepts of a similar nature;

a second package that will include mobility payments

and other similar compensation;

and finally the additional ones for

and the like will be incorporated.

The measure will cover the salaries of the workers of all the activities that contain these additional ones and are reached by Profits, a universe that -according to official calculations- reaches at least 613,000

.

Regarding the effective impact on the pocket salary of these workers, Economy estimates that it will be located on average between

In the case of bank employees, who have already obtained a private opinion, the exception meant a salary increase of between 7% and 8%.

"For Toyota operators it will be 11%, tires 9%, in oil tankers, fishing and embarked it reaches 13%," the spokespersons exemplified.

The choice of the times for the officialization of the measure is not accidental: in April the main parities of the formal private sector are negotiated and the confirmation of a reduction in the tax burden is key to Massa's plans so that salary agreements do not stray too far from their claims to ensure a semi-annual guideline of around 30%.

Together with the political revenue from the announcement of a tax benefit with a direct impact on the pocket at a time when there is not an abundance of positive economic news and the acceleration of inflation continues its course, the minister would become an important tool to cushion an eventual escalation

with the guarantee to the unions of widening the real percentage of the parity increases.

The position of the leadership of the CGT

The CGT decided to take the claim to Massa for a general measure after the SSIP issued various binding opinions to exempt from the tax the additional agreements of various activities based on individual proposals presented jointly by trade unions and business organizations.

"The unions that lead the CGT have to go in search of solving everyone's issue and today the additional ones represent the biggest problem" due to their impact on wages, one of the leaders of the central leadership told this newspaper. He met with the minister on that subject.

The main heads of the CGT asked the minister to generalize the exceptions for Earnings.

The last of the SSIP rulings was known last week and benefited

, as reported by

.

After a presentation by the union led by Cristinista Sergio Palazzo and the chambers that bring together financial entities, six additional profits from the activity agreement were exempted from the payment of Profits: the productivity bonus, the bonus for participation in the profits of the financial system (ROE), cash failure, and payments for travel expenses, mobility expenses and food vouchers or similar.

From this measure, bankers will be able to deduct from the tax up to a maximum annual limit of $1,084,039.68.

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, the benefit will imply an additional pocket salary increase of around 7 or 8% for bankers, which will be added to the rise in parity that rounded off 32.5% for five months. plus the unprecedented compensatory bonus for earnings discounts that reaches up to $450,000 in the highest salaries in the activity.

The head of the banking union, Sergio Palazzo obtained the exception of six additional Profits.

In addition to banking, other exempt unions

The strategy of the administrative appeal to achieve that part of the additional ones are exempted from the tax was previously inaugurated from a joint consultation presented by

after an informal wink with the Massa team .

The Oil Federation, headed by Daniel Yofra, together with the San Lorenzo port activity union agreed at the beginning of the year to the sectoral parity with an increase of 41% for 6 months.

Days before, Economy had ordered that the additional ones for rotating shifts and overtime, which represent 30% of the basic wages of the agreement, were exempted from taxing Profits.

In terms of out-of-pocket salary, the tax benefit represents an average additional income of between 6% and 7% for the activity's personnel.

The

also advanced in this line and obtained, in the particular case of the Toyota automotive personnel, an endorsement from the Economy for the tax exemption of the overtime that the operators perform on weekends and holidays.

The scheme sought to resolve the conflict that arose because the terminal operators refused to work under this modality because, due to tax discounts, they ended up receiving less than their corresponding salary if they did not work overtime.

Now the intention of the union led by Ricardo Pignanelli is to extend the same benefit to the workers of other auto companies who claim for the tax discounts.

These benefits activated union representatives from other activities to request equal treatment for their constituents, with the support of the business chambers of their respective sectors.

Now the measure that Massa defined points to the benefits being extended to the entire universe of workers reached by Gains.

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