The Government's decision to exempt from the payment of Income Tax a series of additional agreements for various activities, which will represent an
improvement of between 7% and 16% on the pocket wages of more than 600,000 workers
, constitutes a key tool for the plans of the Minister of Economy,
Sergio Massa
, that the increases that are negotiated in
parities do not soar too much above the guideline
of a 30% semi-annual rise and thereby feed the
inflationary spiral
.
This Sunday the Ministry of
Economy formalized the decision
to advance with the tax benefit, anticipated exclusively by
Clarín
, which contemplates the
exemption of Earnings
from productivity bonuses, cash failure and concepts of a similar nature;
mobility payments, travel expenses and other similar compensation and supplements for overtime, rotating shifts and the like.
The changes that will be implemented starting tomorrow by means of an
opinion from the Undersecretary of Public Revenue (SSIP), headed by Claudia Balestrini,
were anticipated by Massa to the main heads of the CGT, who visited him in recent days to demand a measure that generalizes the tax benefits granted individually to the unions of oil producers, banks and Smata.
Héctor Daer
, one of the members of the CGTS leadership triumvirate, celebrated this Sunday the Government's decision and Massa's "quick response" to address the issue, and pointedly highlighted the effect of the measure to guarantee an "increase in real wages". of the more than 600 thousand workers reached.
Héctor Daer, one of the triumvirs of the leadership of the CGT, supported the salary improvement that the new exception of Earnings implies.
It is that the new tax benefit was defined just before the
start of the high parity season
, since in April the increases of around 2.8 million workers in the private sector are negotiated.
This month's round
of negotiations
covers the oilfields and the Vaca Muerta complex, Uocra workers, Commerce employees, station workers, the pharmaceutical industries and health drugstores, food workers, refrigerators and the dairy industry, personnel from the port sector and insurance companies, among other activities.
As a good part of these workers are affected by the tax, the exception of the additional ones
will imply an extra recomposition
that will be added to the increase that is set in the respective parity.
With this, the Government is betting that the increases that are agreed do not deviate from their original claims, which contemplated an annual increase of 60% through two semi-annual agreements of 30%, despite the fact that the inflationary escalation does not stop and
accumulated
a rise of at least 20 points in the first quarter of the year.
With this purpose,
Economy turned in the last hours to the Minister of Labor, Kelly Olmos
, the fine print of the initiative to estimate the impact on each activity, prior to the start of the parities of the sectors that will benefit in directly with the new measure.
The Minister of Labor, Kelly Olmos, will be in charge starting this month of defining the most important parities.
The closing of parity in the banking sector represents a good example of this official strategy.
The union of the trade unionist K Sergio Palazzo agreed with the financial institutions on a staggered increase of 32.5% for five months, but incorporated an unprecedented compensation for Profits and then added the exception of the tax of another 6 additional agreements, which raised the increase real above 40%.
"The benefit (for the exception of additional) for Earnings is important because today it had become a problem for everyone. Our goal is to improve the purchasing power of the salary and this is a tool for that," one of the bosses told this newspaper. unions that from this week will negotiate the parity of their activity.
As he estimated, for the workers reached by Profits in that sector, the Government's decision will mean an additional rise of between 9% and 10%.
The workers who will benefit from the new changes in Earnings.
Province by Province.
However, the concern for the difficulties of the Government to contain the rise in prices continues to be the central element for each union when it comes to defining the demand that they will bring to their parities.
For this reason, beyond avoiding publicly questioning Massa's salary cap,
most of the unions are committed to signing short-term agreements
, at most for a quarter, similar to the scheme that the UOM signed last week.
The union led by the Kirchnerist Abel Furlán thus closed a quarterly increase of 18.8% for personnel in the metallurgical industry and will discuss a similar increase in the steel sector in the coming days.
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