Posted on 10/22/2024 6:35:35 AM PDT by TigerClaws
President Javier Milei’s government announced on Monday that Argentina’s federal tax agency, AFIP by its Spanish initials, will be dissolved and replaced with a new agency in accordance with its mandate to “reduce inefficient structures.” According to Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni, 34% of public service jobs within the AFIP will be eliminated.
As of Monday evening, no details had been released regarding the new agency’s operations or what the move means in concrete terms for the country’s fiscal infrastructure.
“AFIP will cease to exist. In its place, the Collection and Customs Control Agency will be created with a simplified structure,” said Adorni in his routine press conference at the Casa Rosada. According to the Herald’s sister publication Ambito, he did not accept questions after the announcement.
The new and reduced agency, ARCA by its Spanish initials, will be a merger between two preexisting government bodies (the tax and customs general directorates, DGI and DGA by their Spanish acronyms). It will be led by Florencia Misrahi, a lawyer who formerly worked for Cargill and is currently serving as the head of the AFIP.
“The Argentina of fiscal voracity is over. What belongs to every Argentine is theirs and no one else’s. No state bureaucrat should have the power to tell them what to do with their property,” Adorni added.
A communiqué released on Monday afternoon described the AFIP as inefficient and highlighted the termination of 3,155 workers hired under former President Alberto Fernández. The communiqué refers to the administration as “Kirchnerite” in reference to Fernández’s vice president, Cristina Kirchner, who is often targeted by government discourse.
Adorni claimed that firing the workers would lead to savings of around AR$6.4 billion per year. Both the spokesman and the communiqué referred to their employment as “irregular,” questioning the legality of their hiring.
“The creation of ARCA is aimed at reducing the size of the state, eliminating unnecessary positions, professionalizing the agency, destroying circuits of corruption, and improving the efficiency of customs collection and control,” read the communiqué.
According to the Herald’s sister publication Ambito, the AFIP Board of Directors said it did not have “objections with respect to the reduction of political positions,” which the government referred to as “high positions,” because that is a power reserved for the Executive Branch. However, it emphasized that “dismissals will not be tolerated on the basis of political origin.”
Amazing progress!
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BREAKING: Trump believes that “there is a way” the United States can abolish federal taxes.
https://x.com/LeadingReport/status/1848554118446510429
It would be nice if President Trump would dissolve the IRS.
Go President Javier Milei!!
President Trump to follow suit!
Amen! Do away with the bureaucracy!!!! Put more taxes on sold goods and let each American keep what they earn. That will stimulate the economy more than any archaic tax laws.
Oh man, if only all that could happen here.
You could cut my office by 60% and still accomplish the same amount of work. Easily.
I know it can be done. Trouble is it reduces tyranny, which is the opposite direction America has been going.
Make Argentina Great Again
Can’t get rid of the IRS but we can start by lowering the income tax to one %. Replace it with tariffs and sin taxes like it was a hundred+ years ago. Eliminate it entirely over 10 years. With more up-front money workers/consumers will have more say in what they are forced to consume.
A consumption/fair tax could be instilled where the tax amount can be voted on YEARLY.
I’ve posted this often. Now we have JD to explain it while the left has a cow over Trump.
Yeah, we could get rid of the IRS. Repeal but not replace. Especially in an age of automation and software.
The IRS is the spitting image of unnecessary bloat, and it is worth abolishing.
Yeah, I’ll take that plan. We have a long ways to go before debating the fine details.
Trump’s gotta win first. Then we strike while the iron is hot. Same with SSI.
This is the way…
There’s a lot of people that are going to have to learn to code.
Make it easy. Give them a golden parachute. Five years full pay and benefits while they look for gainful employment. A lot of them would grab at that opportunity.
The big waste is not in their pay and benefits, but in the pain and worry and compliance costs shouldered by everyone else.
Paying them not to work would be a tremendous bargain.
Along with the IRS, Trump needs to look at disbursing the various federal agency to ‘red states.’
Instead of the ‘hive mentality’ 98% Democrat run D.C. - break them up into smaller units into various areas of the country.
Of course, abolish the Department of Education, which has nothing but hurt actual education.
Need to take a hard look at the CDC as well. Covid showed it’s a compromised agency.
Send power back to the states.
Trump should’ve learned from his first time around that he’s rally got to make major changes this time out.
Pardon all J6 protestors.
End war in Ukraine.
Meet with Kim again and call that crisis.
Stop the war in Middle East.
Will be a busy first 100 days!
It would be well advised to abolish most federal agencies here and reconstitute the roles of only a few of them. The feral gooberment needs to go on a starvation crash diet.
Within a decade or far less Argentina will be the wealthiest nation in South America and a world economic powerhouse. Neighboring countries that have embraced Marxism will be like Cuba, economic wrecks and police states.
“The Argentina of fiscal voracity is over. What belongs to every Argentine is theirs and no one else’s. No state bureaucrat should have the power to tell them what to do with their property,” Adorni added.
This attitude will never fly on this forum since it would threaten the sacred intergenerational pact that secures the survival of many a seasoned citizen on this forum. Sure disband the IRS, eliminate income taxes but by god I was promised my SS so make sure to collect that. “The Argentina of fiscal voracity is over. What belongs to every Argentine is theirs and no one else’s. No state bureaucrat should have the power to tell them what to do with their property,” Adorni added.
Surprised this article is so well received. Is it understood that the new guys in Argentina are liberals in the libertarian sense of the word?
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