The libertarian anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei, who lives with his 4 mastiffs, is the disruptive president of Argentina, who in his electoral campaign, displaying insolent language, with a noisy chainsaw in his hands, shamefully lashed out at his Peronist contender. Sergio Massa. This is due to the high inflation that the country governed by Alberto Fernández had. His commitment was to maintain a fiscal balance, that is, not to spend greater amounts on public policies than the income obtained by the State, which he describes as parasite.
The colorful President Milei criticizes his country’s Congress as a “rat’s nest” and his sister Karina, a pastry specialist and amateur sculptor, holds the important position of Secretary General of the Presidency, who on March 8, the date on which celebrated International Women’s Day, decided motu proprio, changing the name of the Women’s Room in the Casa Rosada, a violent measure that meant sending a message to the nation, that it does not accept feminism.
The duo made up of the Milei brothers also decided to close the state-run Telam News Agency, because its hundreds of journalists and officials would be Kirchnerist propagandist politicians, therefore, in the face of this undesirable circumstance, there was no impartiality to deal with the facts that were made known. to public opinion. The Argentines call Milei “the wig”, who, like an honest extreme neoliberal, maintains that all of his compatriots must fend for themselves and that therefore all subsidies must end.
Despite the fact that said president constantly criticized the politicians who lost the election, calling them “the Caste”, on February 28 he signed a Decree increasing the salary by 48% for himself and all his ministers, an improper practice, which contradicts openly his official speech, even more so because salaries and pensions in that country are becoming smaller every day. This was denounced by former president Cristina Fernández, to which, on the spot, Milei responded that he did not remember having signed the Decree in question that favored him, although later, due to the scandal that occurred, the increase was annulled. In any case, we have no doubt that this shock doctrine will lower inflation.
If readers want to know more about the private and public behavior of Milei, promoter of the law of the jungle in the market, it is recommended to search in cyberspace for the names of the renowned economist, Diego Giacomini, and the millionaire lawyer expert in financial papers, Carlos Maslatón , and the irreverent journalist, Santiago Cúneo, who have known him, with a once good connection, for many years.
Well, President Boric and his predecessors have good manners, but in general terms, in their decisions they have tended to favor the interests of those who have military power, on the one hand, and economic power, on the other hand. In this sense, considering that Boric has published DS No. 30/2023 dated February 1, 2024, which improves environmental regulations, we have the duty to reproach two specific matters that we make known.
The Ministry of National Assets, over time, has assigned thousands of lands and properties (houses and buildings) to the different branches of the Armed Forces to be used for their own institutional needs, but, via the accommodating figure of the Asset of Affectation Prosecutor (PAF), its Welfare Commands, when they deem it appropriate, offer them in the real estate market as assets classified as dispensable, with the aggravating factor that the money collected enters the coffers of said commands. For this reason, years ago with lawyers and architects, we drafted a bill to regularize the inequitable situation, which was signed and entered into the Chamber of Deputies by deputies Rodrigo González (RIP), Tomás Hirsch, Maya Fernández and others.
As time passed and the processing did not progress, we met with Galo Eidelstein, eminent leader of the Communist Party (PC), in his capacity as Undersecretary for the Armed Forces. He kindly received us with several of his advisors, giving him a copy of the bill, asking him to review the matter with the Minister of Defense, Maya Fernández, curiously one of its signatories. The result of this management was never known and therefore there is still no law that “puts the house in order”, declaring in any case that the State has the unavoidable duty to finance, with the necessary resources, the Armed Forces, so that they guarantee national security.
The so-called affordable homes covered by DFL2, a policy established in 1959, are those houses or apartments that have up to 140 m2 built, which boast an infinite number of tax benefits, the most important being the partial reduction for their owners of property contributions. roots and even, surprise!, total exemption from paying income tax. These “economical” homes, reading the press, are offered on the market at prices that reach up to UF 20,000, that is, there is nothing “economical” about them, and without going any further, the apartments covered by this mendacious figure, of the two completed buildings in the Maitencillo spa, with permission to expire due to the opinion of the Comptroller’s Office, if the arrangement occurs these days conciliation in the Supreme Court, between the municipality of Puchuncaví and the company Mar de Maitencillo SA, they will be sold for UF 18,000 each.
According to Official Letter No. 1029 of 03/31/2023, delivered in accordance with the Transparency Law by the Internal Revenue Service (SII) to this columnist, there are more than 2,500,000 of this type of homes, whose owners, already Whether natural or legal persons, who operate in the lucrative rental business, called residential rental in the market, they do not pay even a measly peso of taxes for the income they receive month after month from their tenants.
There are 11 people who have more than 2,000 of these homes, another 50 have between 501 and 1,999 of them, about 400 people own between 51 and 500 of these homes and there are 100,000 people who have between 3 and 50 of these homes. and if an average annual price of $10,000,000 is multiplied for each rental, it is a matter of typing these figures into the cell phone calculator to conclude that this unfounded gift from the State to those freebies of the establishment It should be completed as soon as possible. To date, the numbers have increased considerably.
We are aware that the tax reform under discussion contemplates the elimination of the privilege of not paying taxes for the rental of these “affordable” homes, but we also know that those who defend royalties for those who hold economic power place obstacles for its approval. Regarding the commercial advantages for the branches of the Armed Forces, it will possibly be maintained to avoid “making noise.”
We do not know what happens in Argentina with the tax properties used by the Armed Forces and with the tax treatment of homes.
