AFIP tax agency announced that 20 percent of those who purchased dollars for touristic reasons did not travel overseas and announced that those who do not give back the US currency will be fined and could even have the CUIT tax paying identification number suspended.
According to the tax agency, 73 percent of those who purchased dollars to travel said their destination was,Chile, US and Brazil. But as they crosschecked data with the National Migrations Department the found out that 6800 people who bought foreign currency worth 37.8 million pesos did not leave the country when they had said they would.
A communiqué released by AFIP reported that 34,500 people bought dollars in June for an amount of 184 million pesos and the main reasons for the trips were tourism (63 percent) and work (25 percent). In the case of those who said they would travel but did not do so, top destinations were Uruguay (27 percent), Chile (22 percent,) US (15 percent) and Brazil (14 percent).
The Ricardo Etchegaray led-agency announced it will «send notifications to those contributors who did not leave the country and will inform them about the inconsistencies we found and reminding them that filing sworn statements with inaccuracies can be sanctioned with fines and with the suspension of the CUIT tax paying identification number.”
Fuente: Buenos Aires Herald