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Municipal taxes: Kicillof clarified that they can be included in the services and faces Milei again - Infobae
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Tasas municipales: Kicillof aclaró que pueden incluirse en los servicios y vuelve a enfrentarse con Milei
A través del Organismo de Control de Energía (OCEBA), el gobierno bonaerense informó que la normativa local “prevé la posibilidad de incluir conceptos ajenos en la facturación” y choca con la resolución impulsada por Luis Caputo
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Through the Energy Control Agency (OCEBA), the Buenos Aires government reported that local regulations "provide for the possibility of including foreign concepts in the billing" and clash with the resolution promoted by Luis Caputo
By Facundo Cottet
Axel Kicillof
The government of Axel Kicillof formally entered into the dispute between the municipalities and the national government, after the resolution of the Secretary of Commerce that instructed that the bills for public services "must refer solely and exclusively to the good or service specifically contracted by the consumer and supplied by the provider, and may not contain amounts or concepts unrelated to said good or service," in order to avoid concepts unrelated to the service they provide. However, in the providers of the Province, they may continue to be charged.
This was defined by the Electric Energy Control Agency of the Province of Buenos Aires (OCEBA), which has control power over the North Energy Distribution Company (EDEN SA), the South Energy Distribution Company (EDES), the Atlantic Energy Distribution Company (EDEA), the La Plata Distribution Company (Edelap) and two hundred (200) distributors with municipal concession in the form of Cooperative or Mixed Economy Company. The agency, which depends on the Ministry of Infrastructure of Buenos Aires, stated that "the regulatory framework that governs the province of Buenos Aires approved by Law 11,769, in its article 78 provides for the possibility of including foreign concepts in the billing ." The OCEBA has no jurisdiction over the two large electric energy providers in the amba area, EDENOR and EDESUR.
Caputo's publication
"The province has issued various regulations that regulate and complement it for the purposes of its implementation and that is why the aforementioned national regulation is not directly applicable ," adds the statement from the Agency led by Diego Rozengardt.
This week, the national government issued a resolution through the Secretary of Commerce that was quickly questioned by mayors of Buenos Aires, mostly from districts governed by Peronism. As Infobae reported , according to the municipal leaders, the decision puts at risk, for example, the payment of public lighting. Most municipalities include local taxes in the bill for public services to ensure collection and to meet the payment - in this case - of public lighting; a service that also increased its value in recent months and that also affected the municipalities. " They are looking to leave the conurbation in the dark , it has nothing to do with cleaning up accounts or anything like that," said the mayor of a district of the Third electoral section to Infobae, once the resolution instructed by the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, was known.
According to OCEBA, “ Provincial Law 11,769 regulates the inclusion of foreign concepts in invoices, establishing compliance with the corresponding requirements, without violating the principles of the Consumer Protection Law , in such a way that said incorporation must be duly authorized by OCEBA, detailed in the invoice and allow for separate payment.”
On several occasions, Kicillof himself had defended the tax policy of the municipalities. “What the government proposed is to remove an instrument that the mayors have to have greater collectibility,” he said in the context of the mobilization against the veto on the mobility of pensioners yesterday. Previously, he stated that the Minister of Economy Luis Caputo has to “thank the mayors because if they were not attending to the demands of health, education, food and support, we would have a much more complicated social situation than the one we have today.”
The Minister of Economy with Ramón Lanús
For his part, the Minister of Economy received on Tuesday the mayor of San Isidro, Ramón Lanús , who informed him that the district will eliminate the road tax that is paid on loading each liter of fuel. “Accompanying the effort that all Argentines are making to normalize the economy, we have decided to eliminate the municipal tax on fuel,” said the head of the PRO municipality who moves politically close to the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich.
The tax, formally called “Environmental Protection Service Fee,” implies a cost for residents of $6 for each liter of gasoline they fill up with. In the case of CNG, the cost is $4 per liter. This is a tax that has been charged since 2016.
A few days ago, another mayor of the province had announced the elimination of certain local taxes; a measure that was also welcomed by Caputo. This is the mayor of Zarate, Marcelo Matzkin, who in the midst of the controversy over municipal taxes announced that in his district three taxes that were burdening the existing health and safety tax were eliminated: the tax for the right to habilitation, for construction, the exemption from the ABL for retirees, the tax for the right to office and the exemption for five years from the ABL for those who buy a new real estate development. The decision was welcomed by Caputo.
