Milei effect or drought? A mayor exempted rural producers from taxes for 160 million pesos

the Buenos Aires municipality of Magdalena resolved to exempt the rural sector from paying more than 160 million pesosas a support measure for producers, for this reason Reprofile spoke with the mayor of that town in Buenos Aires, Gonzalo Pelusowho expressed: “We understood that the solution is the exemption, because the suspension is to kick the problem forward and the reduction does not end up giving a basic solution”.

“The exemption is possible for being fiscally well in a municipal State like ours“, explained the interviewee. Then he added: “It is a measure that universally reaches the entire population, because agricultural production part of what is produced reaches the urban economy.”

In addition, Peluso explained that the money forgiven is reinvested by the producers in production, “in some cases so that the loss is not so strong and in others, to reactivate if it starts to rain and we recover the rain indices that in Magdalena they are at 30 percent per year.” In this sense, the Buenos Aires mayor said that the average rainfall is 1600-1700 millimeters per year and “is 2022 it rained 420 mm“.”That is why we are in a state of catastrophe.”

What taxes are exempt in Magdalena

“The producer will be 15 months exempt from paying any municipal tax”said the mayor. The benefit will reach the taxpayers for the omission of payments of the rate for control of brands and signs, rate for control of public roads, rate for fight and control of agricultural pests and rate for general rural services.

What will happen to those who have already paid the 2023 taxes

There are rural producers who paid their taxes for the remainder of this 2023, in this sense the interviewee indicated that, “they are the least, they are less than 10 percent. These people will be exempt until February 2025. We wanted to return the money for those three fees that they had paid, but they didn’t want to.” “So those who paid the annual fee in January throughout 2023 are not going to pay and until 2025 they will not be taxed“, covered.

Regarding the delinquency rate in the municipality, the mayor explained that, “We have a collectability rate of 78-82 percent.” “I believe that the orderly administration allows these types of measures to be taken,” closed Gonzalo Peluso.