Form To Fill Out Before Getting Packages At Retiro

[lucha54]

Birthday gifts sent to me await me at Retiro... I've never been there to pick up packages so would love some advice.
Where do I go?
Will they be open tomorrow during the paro nacional?
The pick-up slips say: PREVIO A RETIRAR SU ENVIO, DEBE CUMPLIMENTAR LOS REQUISITOS DE LA RES GRAL NRO 3579 (EN PAGINA WEB AFIP)

I searched for this and couldn't find anything to fill out, just the description saying it applied to compras por internet (which these are NOT, they are gifts from family).

Please help if you have any info!! :/

 

[jez]

I have no personal experience of this:

I doubt it makes any difference if the package is a gift,otherwise anyone could just purchase something online and send it to themselves and say it was a gift to avoid paying the taxes....???

Some background reading and links:

http://tmagazine.ey....ile-tax-return/
http://www.afip.gob....asenelexterior/ in google translate: http://translate.goo...ior/&edit-text=
Form 4550: http://www.afip.gob....ntos/F4550T.pdf

 

[Somewhereinba]

I was the guinea pig last time so I will try help out. First you need to fill out the 4550 form, then logon to afip with yours or someone you know clave fiscal and proceed to the payments using VEP section. In there you put the full price in dollars and it calculates the tax you need to pay (50%). Using the VEP number that gets generated you then go to your online bank and send the payment using your unique VEP ID number that got provided by the AFIP website. Print out the receipt and take that with the 4550 form. I have no idea but I think you can most likely pay the 50% in cash at the place where you pick the packages up although you will still need the 4550 form filled out.

 

[ghost]

This process really, really, really sucks. Who invents this stuff???? Unfortunately this kind of restriction is straight out of the Venezuelan hand book.

 

[scotttswan]

This process really, really, really sucks. Who invents this stuff???? Unfortunately this kind of restriction is straight out of the Venezuelan hand book.

bureaucrats

 

[lucha54]

I was the guinea pig last time so I will try help out. First you need to fill out the 4550 form, then logon to afip with yours or someone you know clave fiscal and proceed to the payments using VEP section. In there you put the full price in dollars and it calculates the tax you need to pay (50%). Using the VEP number that gets generated you then go to your online bank and send the payment using your unique VEP ID number that got provided by the AFIP website. Print out the receipt and take that with the 4550 form. I have no idea but I think you can most likely pay the 50% in cash at the place where you pick the packages up although you will still need the 4550 form filled out.

My bf has a clave fiscal, do I just use his? I don't know what was sent (4 boxes were sent, the irony is that I don't even want the gifts enough to go thru this process! just feeling guilty) so I don't know how much the stuff is worth and can't know how much to pre-pay online. Also don't have an online bank to send money from (can use the BFs but then doesn't this all get put into his records?) This is SOOOOOO convoluted!!!

 

[ajoknoblauch]

My bf has a clave fiscal, do I just use his? I don't know what was sent (4 boxes were sent, the irony is that I don't even want the gifts enough to go thru this process! just feeling guilty) so I don't know how much the stuff is worth and can't know how much to pre-pay online. Also don't have an online bank to send money from (can use the BFs but then doesn't this all get put into his records?) This is SOOOOOO convoluted!!!

That's the whole point! If it weren't convoluted, Argentines could be vulnerable to foreign-printed books, iPhones, and other dangerous items that are not nac y pop!

 

[prettejohn]

My wife went this morning to get our son's birthday parcel which we received a Correo notification from 3 weeks ago. We had one month to collect it. There were two queues. One to get in the building which took one hour. Then the second to get your ticket which allows you wait for your number to be eventually called. My wife gave up after 2 hours of standing (there are no chairs) and waiting for nothing particular to happen. It was a 'kilombo'. She was told that there were 2 to 3 containers full of parcels still to be opened.

All this for a birthday present sent over 2 months ago.

My advice. Tell your friends and family to put money in your account and then spend it buying apps and books for your kindle.

 

[johnw100]

This process really, really, really sucks. Who invents this stuff???? Unfortunately this kind of restriction is straight out of the Venezuelan hand book.

Well they say its to protect the Argentine industry. And why would you want to import the latest apple or android tablet from abroad, for example, when you can have an out of date tablet sent from china in pieces, assembled in Argentina, sold at twice the cost of an ipad and then end up in pieces a few months later and in the bin.

 

[lucha54]

This stuff is not androids and apples, it's kitchen utensils and party decorations. I don't know what value was declared when sending it but I think that may have been the issue... anyway not even worth the trouble I guess besides being nice and collecting what were good intentions from unsuspecting family members