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    Disappointed with Food in Argentina

    $20 for a chook 10 days vencido.
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    In search of banking info

    I transferred US$1,500 from my overseas account (i.e., direct, in home banking, via SWIFT) into my Santander US$ account last week. The full amount was credited to the account. Two charges showed up in my pesos account. As far as I can see, that is all they charge: 8,723 pesos in total. Com...
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    In search of banking info

    Correct. And the commission they charge is only a few thousand pesos, automatically taken from the linked peso account. (And, while they knew it was a Migraciones-related request, they at no point asked for the income source or the migration category. It was sufficient to have a DNI. They do...
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    Do I need passport apostilled for marriage/permanent residency?

    This is interesting. Others who have recent experience with Migraciones might like to chime in now. As I commented above, Migraciones never asked me to apostille a copy of my passport, or any page from my passport. If the rules have changed recently, it would be helpful to the OP.
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    Do I need passport apostilled for marriage/permanent residency?

    Migraciones (the department that administers residency applications: I have no knowledge of the marriage processes) are notoriously hopeless, but they do at least know what a passport is. In my long experience with them on residency applications, they have not required any of my passport pages...
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    Best place in Recoleta to exchange USD for ARG Peso

    This one was closed and taped up with a judicial order pinned on the door on Friday 13 December. Has it re-opened?
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    Buying Departamento as a Tourist

    You need more than an accountant. The accountant calculates the amount and prepares the return. But you need another person (an Argentina tax payer) to stand in for you as the tax payer, pay the amount electronically on your behalf and assume the risk before the tax authority. The bienes...
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    Buying Departamento as a Tourist

    However, you also have to find someone willing to be your representative to the tax authority and pay the wealth tax on the property on your behalf.
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    Hello and a cash question

    Whilst all the above is true, the Florida Street anecdote is just illustrative of how normal it is. Living in Recoleta, you will quickly discover discreet businesses (often an office where people pay their utility bills) that you simply enter and, instead of paying a bill, buy pesos in a booth...
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    Tourist visa expiring while doing residency visa

    The caveat is do not be outside the country the day your precaria expires. As others have said, once you have your precaria, you are no longer a tourist and the need to leave or renew that tourist "visa" after 90 days disappears. You can come and go from Argentina while on precaria status. Doing...
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    Statement of Tax Liability in Argentina needed

    and the agreement can't be fully understood in isolation from a detailed understanding of each country's tax residency loss and acquisition legislation.
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    Statement of Tax Liability in Argentina needed

    OK, good luck. I'm fairly experienced too with legal language, but even so was caught out by a drafting slight of hand in my agreement. There is poor drafting in mine that needs professional interpretation. And some terms aren't defined: the lawyers can supply their real world meaning.
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    Statement of Tax Liability in Argentina needed

    Is that your reading of the double tax treaty or that of an accountant or tax lawyer? Be very sure. (When I consulted my profesional, he corrected my reading of my tax treaty.)
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    Statement of Tax Liability in Argentina needed

    (Apologies for the multiple postings) It's a complicated matter, but conceptually we can simplify the steps. You need a Holanda accountant to tell you (now) when and in what circumstances a Holanda taxpayer loses Holanda tax residency under Holanda tax legislation. At the same time (i.e...
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    Statement of Tax Liability in Argentina needed

    To "prevent taxation in [your] previous European country" (Holanda, presumably), you have to organize your financial affairs in such a way that on the date you first meet the definition (under Argentina's ganancias tax legislation) of tax resident in Argentina (a date on which you will almost...
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    Statement of Tax Liability in Argentina needed

    Wouldnt the procedure be to establish with Holanda that under the double tax agreement you longer meet the definition of tax residency in Holanda but instead Argentina? And the statement from the Holanda tax authority to that effect would be the document you present to the Holanda pension fund...
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    What's the reality of safety in Buenos Aires?

    I got a chuckle out of this. Exactly the same advice I give to people. This is a fascinating thread for the way we are revealing our mental stereotypes about the world. The initial post set the tone: an "American" would stand out in Argentina (where everybody is an American and the normal...
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    AFIP will control your expenses in May: from what amounts should your bank report

    We didn't get into this matter in more than a cursory way as it's not relevant to my particular case. As has been said many times on this board, each individual with significant income and assets in play needs to get their own advice from an accountant or lawyer (or both) before they consider...
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    AFIP will control your expenses in May: from what amounts should your bank report

    Steve, you have previously posted here the amount of your pension income. The reason you are exempt from tax on it in Argentina is not because foreign pensiones are, generally, exempt from tax in Argentina (they are not) but because the amount of your particular pension is below the minimum...
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