20% Surcharge For Travel

[dennisr]

Think the deal is all purchases have to get approval from AFIP if the service is denominated in a foreign currency. An American Airline, Air France...ticket is an imported service. This is going to be on a par with the Argentine's trying to get approval from AFIP for currency purchases for travel expenses. Buying an airline ticket with cash is going to get you on AFIP's "A" list.

 

[Rich One]

You can't avoid the 20% tax as it applies to cash purchases too. In your case, your gf will have to pay the peso price + 20% and you will have to pay the dollar price + 20%...which is really to stop you from buying pesos on the blue market rate and then buying your ticket in cash at the official rate. For your girlfriend, it means that the peso price is more blue rate than official rate.

Can you explain further ?? [background=rgb(252, 252, 252)]you will have to pay the dollar price??? + 20%.. you mean will have to pay in Dollar bills? + 20 %, or converted to pesos at What Rate??? $8 pesos??[/background]

 

[mdb73]

Went to the usual airline desk this morning where I issue many tickets...after reading the start of the thread. As a non-resident...paying in cash, there seems to have no change...for the moment. It's the payment in credit card which has some issues.

I'm not going to waste too much time issuing what I need for the coming months...

 

[French jurist]

I looked better at the link (at the end of the message) but still, I did it quickly (I'm mostly right though, I guess):


Article 1 – what transactions does it apply to:

• Purchase of goods/prestations, services et/ou cash advances, done outside of Argentina by residents and paid with credit/debit/purchase cards managed by entities of Argentina. Are also included purchases done through the internet and payable in foreign currency. (That’s for credit/debit/purchase cards only but it’s normal since those are transactions originate from outside of Argentina.)

• Purchase of services done outside of Argentina through travel agencies in Argentina.
• Purchase of transport services (plane, road, boat) where the destination is outside Argentina. (That one includes cash payments it seems)

(fiscal aspect)​

Article 2 – people who will receive payment of those taxes
(a bit irrelevant in this thread)

Article 3 – people subject to this tax
Residents in the country.
I wonder if foreigners, even resident, can try to show only their passports not to pay the tax… mhhhh would be illegal though. Doesn’t apply to tourists, even if you pay from Argentina an airplane ticket for someone to come visit you from abroad (and if you are a tourist yourself)

Article 5 – calculation of the tax

• For Art. 1 – a and b - = 20% on the total price
• For Art. 1 – c - = 20% on the price, excluding the taxes

So for the plane/bus/boat tickets = 20% tax excluding the transport/terminal taxes (still better for airplane tickets where such taxes are quite high).


Conclusion, lucky are the permatourists. I wonder what happens if a foreign resident just shows his passport to buy a ticket...

http://novedadimpositiva.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/afip-resolucion-general-3450.html

 

[French jurist]

Also, for the c) Las operaciones de adquisición de servicios de transporte terrestre, aéreo y por vía acuática, de pasajeros con destino fuera del país.part, could it be interpreted that a R/T to Berlin would not be "con destino fuera del pais" for the Berlin-Buenos Aires trip?!

I wonder what Argentineans who read this think? (still improving my castellano skills... long way to go)

 

[dennisr]

I do not know about a non-resident purchasing a ticket? Article indicates NO purchases.
..... decided to ban the sale of tickets and package tours abroad to nonresidents
http://www.ambito.com/diario/noticia.asp?id=680092

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//www.ambito.com/diario/noticia.asp%3Fid%3D680092&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=ISO-8859-1

 

[French jurist]

I do not know about a non-resident purchasing a ticket? Article indicates NO purchases.
..... decided to ban the sale of tickets and package tours abroad to nonresidents
http://www.ambito.co...a.asp?id=680092

http://translate.goo...1&ie=ISO-8859-1

Mhhhh indeed... Una "orden no escrita partió de la AFIP y del Banco Central", jeje.

I just tried to book an Air France flight, to pay it in pesos in Santander Rio like I did last year, and it's only possible to pay via credit card now.

 

[dennisr]

Mhhhh indeed... Una "orden no escrita partió de la AFIP y del Banco Central", jeje.

I just tried to book an Air France flight, to pay it in pesos in Santander Rio like I did last year, and it's only possible to pay via credit card now.

Am thinking of some poor student perma-tourist with no dollars/credit card trying to get out of the country to go home? Poor bugger is trapped.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Applies to the BuqueBus. dammit !!!

In December, I paid my Buquebus fare with cash "blue" pesos, which made it substantially cheaper. Will they be able to control that?

 

[Rich One]

In December, I paid my Buquebus fare with cash "blue" pesos, which made it substantially cheaper. Will they be able to control that?

As we read nonresidents CC only! no cash?