He Government works against the clock to To close a deal with the blocks of the dialogic oppositionwith the objective of to advance tomorrow in the opinions of the Base Law and the tax package. The idea is to meet this afternoon to finalize the differences and go to the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday and achieve full sanction of the norm.
The points in conflict They are still the same: Earnings and Personal Assets. Added to this is the intention to insist on the privatization of Aerolíneas Argentinas, Correo Argentino and Radio and Television Argentinathe companies that were removed from the list in the Senate.
He meeting It will be this afternoon in Congress of the Nation. The scheduled time is at 17 hours and it will be, as until now, in the office of the president of the Lower House, Martin Menem. It is expected that the discussion will revolve around these two chapters and the ruling party’s plan aims to reach an agreement with the UCR, PRO, We Make the Federal Coalition, the Civic Coalition and the Federal Innovation. If they succeed, a single opinion would be signed tomorrow and that way on Thursday there could be a simplified procedure in the facility.
In regards to the Base Law There are not so many discrepancies in general. The discussion is raised in the companies to be privatized. There are sectors of the opposition that want to insist on adding the three aforementioned state companies that the ruling party withdrew from the debate in the Senate. The problem is that the senators They assure that that was a agreement in exchange for votes and the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos denies it and he says that they made that decision “because the votes were not there.”
It is not a minor detail whether or not it was an agreement. Especially for the block UCR, who would be the one who contributed votes in exchange for removing them from the list. This generates internal in Deputies. While on the one hand the head of the block, Rodrigo De Loredo wants to insist on privatizations, Other deputies want to respect what was voted in the Senate. That is the case of Julio Cobosfor example, who publicly said that it was important “respect the changes introduced in the Bases law in the Upper House – the elimination of companies -, and insist on issues such as Profits and Personal Assets.
But taxes are also generating discussion. The Government wants the deputies to insist. The deputies want the Executive to request it as its own. But, furthermore, this insistence collides head-on with the claims of a good sector of the senators who come from Patagonia. In the Senate, the Government knew that it faced the refusal of a quarter of the Chamber, so it negotiated a 22% increase in the floor for the Patagonian provinces except Tierra del Fuego, which was exempt.
Finally, the plenary session of the Upper House rejected modifying the taxso if today insist with the Original text in the Lower House, all workers who have income above 1.8 million pesos must be paid Earningsregardless of whether your residence is in the south or north of the country.
Something similar happened with Personal Assets. The Government argues that it is necessary to lower the tax to encourage money laundering. In the opposition there are sectors that understand that it is a benefit for the richest and that it will only have the consequence that the ruling party will say that it lowered taxes and that will impact a drop in collection.
The axis of the conflict today lies in whether there were agreements or not. The Executive denies these pacts in the Senate and the senators, especially the radical ones, explain exactly the opposite. This afternoon the destination of these two taxes will begin to be defined.
