Recent content by Alby

It goes like this: Frank likes to provoke discussion on his pet topics by launching highly contestable claims in a way that suggests there is not, in fact, any possible contest of ideas. People tend to bite. He’s usually heard all the counter arguments before and is poised ready with his...

It’s reasonable to question in this case. A landmark official inquiry after the events found between 8,000 and 9,000 victims, but said there might have been more. We can see for ourselves on the back of an envelope that its number is commensurate with what happened in a neighboring country. On...

It's true. Not even the person who has admitted to making it up and the circumstances in which he made it up knows that it's not a made up number. (Mind you, there ought to be a record of that meeting with Dutch legislators somewhere in the annals of the Dutch's parliament's archives. Nobody is...

No offense taken. In return I won't beat up on you in another thread for declaring your incompetence on the results of the dirty war and then 220 words later on the basis of a Wikipedia article declare the case closed.

This may explain some of what is going on: https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/los-abogados-deberan-reportar-operaciones-sospechosas-de-lavado-de-sus-clientes-en-algunos-casos-nid25032024/ (Argentina is under the microscope internationally for it lax controls of money laundering and terrorism...

If they carefully read their own policy, they'd probably realize that while the idea was to a set new minimum amount for rentistas to demonstrate and for the first time set an amount for pensionistas, it was only intended that the rentistas actually deposit into an account here. The majority of...

On bienes personales, although the government can't get through its changes through parliament, you have to wonder with the libertarians in charge whether they just get around problem by making it clear internally in AFIP that they are not particularly interested in pursuing this tax.

Only if you are one of those who believe that overseas pension income is taxable here. Some are certain that it isn't. Others wonder why it wouldn't be.

Just quickly, yes, you will be able to purchase private medical insurance. My provider (Medicus) sells it to foreigners as soon as they reach the precaria stage of their residency application. Other providers probably do as well. You do not have to be employed. Others can comment on how these...

Nice country. Lovely people. Asunción is a pleasant city on the river. But unbearably hot in November.

Lately they have. The point is we forget that before that they dropped considerably. The rate rises were controlled during almost all of 2023 while the blue skyrocketed. In my particular case, the basic was costing me almost half in dollars in September 2023 compared to November 2022. Some...

Have the costs really tripled though? I'm paying 4 times in pesos what I was paying in November 2022 for the basic, but the blue has more than tripled over the period (and, for a time, had quadrupled). It's more expensive, but not 3 times more expensive.

I agree. It been seven months since these new rules were introduced, and these questions have been there since the start. The process makes no sense: you open an account (even though a bank won't do that until you at least have reached precaria stage), you start depositing money into it, and...

I'm certainly struck by how often I come into contact with people in normal daily business interactions (shops, real estate agents) who seem well into their 80s and are still working away at whatever their bit is. And most of my friends and acquaintances are professionales (teachers, lawyers...