Tax awareness in Argentina

We get the law

The Fiscal Transparency Proposal (FTP) finally became law on June 28, as part of the “Fiscal Package, Palliative and Relevant Fiscal Measures.” It was a difficult parliamentary procedure. It had been presented in February as part of the “Bases Law” project, which had to be discussed again in the Commission of the Representatives Chamber.

In the second attempt by the government, the original initiative was divided into two projects (Bases and Fiscal Package), and after long debates they were approved in the first instance by the Representatives. In the Senate the procedure was no less complex and, with some modifications, it was also approved. It was then necessary to return to the Lower House for the ratification of the original texts or the approval of what was voted in the Senate. Finally, they went for the latter alternative.

The FTP is the only chapter of the package that arises from civil society, in this case promoted throughout its entire process by Lógica. Eleven months have passed since the public presentation of our initiative, until it became law. In that period, in addition to presenting our proposal in all the areas to which we had access (press, conferences and presentations), we collected more than 50 thousand signatures on Change.org and we also took the proposal to the five presidential candidates during the general elections from last year. Three of them (Javier Milei, Patricia Bullrich and Juan Schiaretti) committed to promoting our idea. Already as President, Milei honored his commitment.

It was a huge joint effort, with just over a year of Lógica's public career. We owe our recognition to all those who are part of this collective effort: board of directors, donors, collaborators and advisors in different operational areas and adherents to the causes we carry out. We would not have achieved this result without everyone's contribution.

Next steps

What follows will require very intense work. First, the law must be regulated and we are pending the process and in contact with the authorities so that the spirit of the norm is maintained in this step. In that sense, we have already held meetings with authorities, both advisors to the Executive Branch and Consumer Defense officials, and in parallel also with representatives of mass consumption stores, in order to address their concerns and join forces.

Second, the process of adhesion of the regional governments to the law. The proposal governs national indirect taxes, and invites the provinces to join in and make their own taxes and municipal taxes transparent. On the first business day after approval by Congress, we sent notes to each governor and the Head of Government of the City of Buenos Aires requesting a meeting to begin traveling this path. There are already firm efforts in several districts, with the first meetings with government authorities.

Finally, and as is the spirit of our actions, this initiative has massive reach and impact. As such, it must be not only well implemented, but also well communicated. We are working on a communication campaign to maximize the impact of this measure on the entire society.

Candidates for the National Supreme Court of Justice – Lógica Actions

The selection process of two judges for the Supreme Court of Justice continues. From Lógica we act through publications social media and with articles in the press. In addition to this, we made a presentation to the Ministry of Justice, formalizing our position that within the framework of the “fiscal tragedy” (highest taxes in the world, highest inflation, public spending doubled in the last two decades), in addition to an expert in constitutional law the other judge of the Court should be a specialist in tax issues, a tax expert with a recognized profile as a defender of constitutional tax principles.

The process continues in the Senate, where we also formally sent our position through the Agreements Commission.

Press and social media

Since the launching of Lógica we achieved almost 300 appearances in media of all kinds (radio, television, print media and streaming). We keep the objective of giving federal dissemination to our message, with an important proportions of publications in the country mainland.

Regarding social networks, advertising was spent in this period in order to publicize the approval of our proposal in Congress.

The campaign ran on Meta platforms (Facebook and Instagram), and 9,046,308 accounts were reached. Of these, impressions (views) reached 9,316,780.

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