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If only it were true. After posting regularly on this issue since 2020, recent progress in my own migration process meant the time had come to get to the bottom of the matter once and for all, so I contracted an expensive taxation lawyer here in Buenos Aires specialized in cross-border...

Personally introduced to and shaken hands with two serving presidents (one of whom was rolling drunk at the time and didn't so much shake my hand as high-5 it) and one serving PM. Met more informally one future president and one future PM, and one past president and one past PM. Shared a plane...

That is what I suspect too. The banks probably just receive fairly general edicts from the regulators about how to control for money laundering and terrorism financing prevention etc, and then they determine their own internal rules for how to comply, including limits per month or year.

As a neutral, I only watched the debate to see how badly Biden would do. Yes, he lost his train of thought once or twice. But I was surprised how well he did overall in what was nearly 2-hours. So much so, that I nodded off eventually and woke up a little before the end. Immediately it finished...

Have you thought about naming him Sergio, after your favorite economist, and having him cloned?

There doesn't seem to be much interest in the weather reports. You might generate more discussion if you stick to the winning formula of prolific political commentary. With a day passed between your penultimate post and your last one, and no comment from anyone else in between, and nothing from...

Once we become a tax resident in Argentina (in simplified terms, after completing 12 months as a temporary resident on the program run by Migraciones), our overseas pensions are taxable as ganancias if they are above the minimo no imponible (still around 3,500,000 pesos per month after the...

Hopefully. We'd hate for bumper harvest conditions to continue next year and continue disguising the fact that any Milei success (the last thing we want to see) is actually down to Massa. (I was bound to bite.)

I wish I could remember the name of the comedian who pointed out that people from the US tend not to get or recognize the sarcasm--whether verbal or in writing--that is part and parcel of the communication style and culture of people from many other parts of the English-speaking world. (Maybe...

I couldn't agree more. My most recent two trips "home" (not the US) have left me thoroughly depressed about the consumption mentality and degree of accumulation amongst family and friends. Almost everybody I know lives in a large house that is now overwhelmed with belongings and junk accumulated...

Same point really. The same people who claim to be exasperated that Milei doesn't appear to have an economic plan were strangely silent when Alberto came out and publicly stated that he did not believe in economic plans. It seems structural problems take time to fix. But as to whether the...

Milei will never be successful. The who hate him are already putting his future success down to the brilliant work of Massa setting for the scene for the agricultural revival he will benefit from. Those who claim to care that a president put in a full day's work and criticize Milei for not doing...

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.