Mayor Mariano Gaido cconfirmed that service stations will not receive a percentage for the administrative collection of the road tax, while the sellers clarified that They are waiting for YPF to start charging at pumps to make the adaptation and collect the fee in Neuquén and Centenario.
“The only city where it is being charged is San Martín de los Andes,” said Carlos Pinto, vice president of the chamber of retailers in Neuquén. The businessman, who has his business in Centenario, said that although All stations received notification of the validity of the ordinance that created the rate, They still do not collect the tax.
«YPF makes the change of prices from a computer center in Buenos Airesuntil this is done, lOther oil companies refrain from applying it. The only place where it is being applied is San Martín de los Andes,” he reaffirmed in radio statements to Universidad Calf radio.
He added that the owners of the service stations do not have a date for when the collection will begin. «The rest is defined, the supplier application is missing: We have already been notified and the municipality made it clear that anyone who does not apply it is subject to sanctions, “It has to be done,” said Pinto.
In statements to Rio Negro, Mayor Mariano Gaido insisted yesterday that “the road tax has its purpose: to the extent that the funds that are being collected (at service stations for the fund transport) do not reach the city, the fee will be charged. When those funds arrive, the rate ends,” he insisted.
When asked if there is a conflict with the station owners due to the administrative percentage that had been analyzed, which would be 2% of the total collected by the fee, the community leader was blunt. by maintaining that “here there is no conflict: “The regulations (of the road tax ordinance) that were published on June 14, did not set percentages.”
Gaido orHe tried to give the details of the parking attendants’ absences from the meetings that the Executive convened during the summer and in the first quarter, in which It was expected to make the implementation of the road tax compatible after February 22 The Neuquén Deliberator sanctioned it.
While waiting in the meetings, both the Federation, the Chamber of Vendors and the FEEN They issued harsh statements against the implementation of the road tax. Even with youtexts that questioned thefor the purpose of collection What will be done
Gaido listed the approval in February and the judicial definition that did not suspend the collection while analyzing the constitutionality that did put questioned the hotel and gastronomic chamber of San Martín de los Andes.
«I would like them to express themselves on the tax they collect from the Nation and that is not remitted: they collect for Buenos Aires,” the communal chief slipped in reference to the proposals before the national administration to distribute within the country the funds they receive from the sale of fuels and that they are only distributed in CABA and AMBA.
«At some point it was decided to stimulate (charging at the pumps) with a small part – of the operation – due to administrative management, but when they implemented it, unilaterally they decided not do it”the businessman said, in turn, in radio statements.
