CFK highlighted the “record collection” announced yesterday by the AFIP tax bureau and affirmed Argentina continues on “non-stop growth trends.”
Heading an official rally at the government house, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner reaffirmed the Kirchnerite “won decade” slogan calling to address both the domestic and the international scenarios as the global turmoil deepens with world leaders failing to overcome a 4-year financial and economic crisis.
“Collecting capacity has increased over the past decade but not because taxes rose. We did it without touching any tax legislation,” the head of state insisted and praised the co-participation regime that imposes a 30-percent withholding on soybean production, Argentina’s “golden” export commodity.
Back on Monday, AFIP tax bureau head Ricardo Echegaray announced tax collection rose 27.4 percent in May compared to the same period last year, reaching 77.7 billion pesos.
“This is to put an end to the story that only one sector pays taxes. Producers, small and medium businessmen, workers, they are all paying taxes,” Fernández de Kirchner said and urged Argentineans to “look at those who have less to hold out the hand of solidarity.”
Prior to her speech, CFK held a video conference with vice president Amado Boudou who was in Haiti heading the inauguration of a hospital, a joint project by Argentina, Cuba and Venezuela.
“There were no multilateral credit organisms here (in Haiti) or consultant agencies; three countries helped” to build the medical center, she said, in the earthquake-strike country also hit by appalling poverty rates.
Source: Buenos Aores Herald