"The ideal would be to eliminate the income tax for all workers," claimed this Monday
Pablo Moyano
, one of the heads of the CGT leadership triumvirate, waiting to know the fine print of the
official resolution that will set the benefit Effective from the exception
of a series of additional tax payment agreement.
In the workers union they are now enthusiastic about the
update of the salary floor
that determines the scope of the tax while they are already preparing the several times postponed
visit of Sergio Massa to the entity,
in a strong political gesture that the union leadership imagines as the spearhead of a
eventual presidential candidacy that the minister insists on
publicly rejecting.
The Undersecretary of Public Revenues advanced this Monday in the details of the opinion that it will issue as a first step to exempt from Profits the additional bonuses for productivity, cash failure, mobility, per diem, overtime, rotating shifts and other similar compensations, a measure that according to the calculations of the Ministry of Economy will directly benefit 613,000 workers who will have an improvement in pocket wages of between 7% and 16%.
Pablo Moyano supported the changes in Profits but asked that the collection of the tax to workers be eliminated.
From Economy they estimated that public sector workers (teachers, police officers and security forces) will be the most favored by the measure (some 135,657 workers).
To them will be added 101,325 workers from different branches of the industrial sector, some 81,504 health employees and auxiliary health services in the private sector;
74,925 transportation employees and another 50,078 from commerce.
In addition, 46,666 workers from service companies will benefit;
22,909 from banks and the insurance sector;
18,201 from private education;
12,632 from construction and 56,103 from other activities.
Relief from Changes in Earnings - Sector by Sector
Precisely sectors such as Commerce, UOCRA, Health, transport unions, insurance and various industrial activities will negotiate from this month their respective salary increases in parities.
And Massa's expectation indicates that the increases that are set are not far from the official claim to generalize a guideline of 30% every six months in order to avoid continuing to feed the inflationary spiral.
This objective, however, collides with
the growing concern of the trade unions for the escalation of inflation
and the concrete fact that the new exception for Earnings will only benefit a portion of the workers in the private sector (613,000 out of more than 9.7 million registered workers), who are the ones who receive medium and high wages.
The new exemptions from the tax, which the tax experts estimate will be
retroactively applied to January 1
because they are Profits from an annual liquidation tax,
will not reach -on the other hand- employees outside the agreement
since the measure will promptly establish the exemption of "agreed additions", according to official sources and the CGT.
In this context, from the CGTE leadership they insisted this Monday on highlighting Massa's decision to move quickly with the measure in response to the claim that different unionists transferred to him last week.
And they anticipated that
they are already working to finalize the minister's postponed visit to the union headquarters
on Azopardo street.
In this sense, union leaders consulted by
Clarín
indicated that the date of the meeting has not yet been defined, but they agreed that it will take place within the next two weeks.
"The intention is to show gratitude for the gesture of addressing an issue that we needed to resolve," said a cegetista referent.
And he slipped that it will also be an important sign of union support if Massa finally decides to run for president.
In the union front line they also project that the meeting will serve to unlock other pending claims of the central, such as the increase in the
distribution of funds to the social works
that their unions administer.
Added to this question in recent days was the request of some leaders to move forward with the increase in the
salary floor that determines the scope of Earnings
, which currently amounts to $404,062 but was outdated with respect to inflation and increases in parities. , and a proposal to establish
the payment of a fixed sum for municipal workers
, whose salaries are below the value of the minimum, vital and mobile wage.
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