Argentineans can no longer cope with a “ferocious” tax pressure, head of the Renewal Front (RF) Sergio Massa affirmed accusing the government of “denying reality” as he vowed to eliminate income tax if he gets elected president in 2015.
According to lawmaker Massa, demands to have Argentina’s income tax floor revised do not respond to “an ideology” but to the need of “people’s pockets.”
“The level of tax pressure is ferocious and there is a profound denial of reality. Income tax is not an ideology, it is people’s pockets,” the ex mayor of the Buenos Aires province locality of Tigre told media today.
Massa said politicians are “discussing how to rob from workers a part of their salary in December while those who steal are being defended by a ruling and have their salary in jail.” “It is an upside down country,” he complaint.
On Monday, Massa sent a formal letter to head of the AFIP tax bureau Ricardo Echegaray demanding to have December’s salary bonus – “aguinaldo” in Spanish – exempted from income tax deductions.
“What we have to defend is people’s purchasing power. Only a whim can explain December tax deductions, we have brought to the administrator of public revenue (Ricardo Echegaray the need) to call technical teams from different (political) forces to resolve the situation,” the RF leader said and vowed to eliminate income tax if he gets to the presidency next year.
“It can not be that the one working and small and medium-size enterprises are the ones that continue to be punished and not those who gamble getting excessive income. That is the way.”
buenosairesherald.com