New Online Purchasing Laws

[Gringoboy]

If I understand this correctly, you now need to file an up to date tax return to buy a grommet from Amazon or Ebay?
According to my other half, it won't function like the dollar approvals with AFIP where they either say yes or no, ie you won't need approval to do the grommet import.
Of course, this being the way things are here, it's not totally unexpected and puts yet another obstacle in the path of what other people are able to do in a normal and free society.
And that's the part that rankles with me, even though I don't buy grommets from Amazon, for the simple reason that it's been difficult enough before this new law.
And all this of course from an agency, whose titular head is able to freely abuse the very laws he himself signed off.
The hipocracy is enough to make to make me puke.

LN article:
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1657161-rigen-desde-hoy-nuevos-controles-para-comprar-por-internet

Decree:
http://www.boletinoficial.gov.ar/Inicio/Index.castle

 

[Gaucho_ec]

Only applied if you mail it and need to pick it up in Argentina (at the moment. Probably a work around will be discovered by argie wits and gov't will answer with a full ban)

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

Sigh. More madness from the economically illiterate gils running this country into the ground.

I see today the Captain in the papers telling an leader of a group of industrialists that they should have to defend the government's management of the economy.

Freedom of thought? Opinion? Not as worthwhile as blindly backing the govt.

More sighs.

 

[syngirl]

I buy english books off of Amazon about 2x a year for my kid -- using my foreign credit card. I have a DNI but don't declare any income here and wouldn't be using our Argentine credit card. I wonder if this will apply to me? I doubt any of you can answer, since I doubt Etchegaray himself could answer!!

 

[Gringoboy]

Yes, the imaginative Argentines will surely find ways around this and other Draconia.
All power to their elbows I say.
I buy computer related kit from wholesalers to sell in the shop. Nothing fancy, basic stuff like routers, keyboards and mice.
I then mark it up for resale only to discover that on Mercadolibre, the very same items are selling well below my actual cost price.
How they get the stuff into Argentina is a question i would dearly love the answer to.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

I buy english books off of Amazon about 2x a year for my kid -- using my foreign credit card. I have a DNI but don't declare any income here and wouldn't be using our Argentine credit card. I wonder if this will apply to me? I doubt any of you can answer, since I doubt Etchegaray himself could answer!!

The answer is simple. It applies to you. As a resident of Argentina you have to pay taxes and, if double taxation exception apply to you, then AFIP has to grand it.
If you are a House-wife, you can apply for House-wife cuil and then you can continue buying on line but you will have to pay the import tax you were evading (about 50%) and you have to pay for you jubilación (less than 100 pesos a month) and medical insurance that you can deduct from the Bill you pay to the insurance you already have after the 3rd month.

 

[Crema Americana]

So many rules, it's hard to keep up! The tax on your credit card and the import tax at Retiro (not to mention the ridiculously long line) isn't enough?

Entry into the country should come with a currency/purchases restriction pamphlet.

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

This particular regulation isn't restricting anyone from online purchases. The government just wants people to pay their taxes, yes? I don't see anything wrong with that.

 

[Crema Americana]

I like it how in Argentina this is par for the course... but when applied to elsewhere, having to file an IRS form just to purchase something from overseas sounds insane. Yes, people should pay their taxes and have to prove source of income when there's a discrepancy, but this just seems like an annoyance than a real solution.

In any case, it won't work. The country is still bleeding dollars and will continue to do so - another band-aid for a gunshot.

 

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This particular regulation isn't restricting anyone from online purchases. The government just wants people to pay their taxes, yes? I don't see anything wrong with that.

This particular regulation isn't restricting anyone from online purchases. The government just wants people to pay their taxes, yes? I don't see anything wrong with that.

I understood that the purpose of this measure was to 'stem the flow of USDs out of the country'. And also to track where these items were being purchased from.
Not necessarily a tax collection issue - unless they find some way to use these 'sworn statements' in such a way against the purchasers(?).

How does it work with purchases over the internet? Does the vendor receive pesos or their home currency? Or is it the choice of the purchaser (or bank issuing the credit card) or the vendor?
I wouldn't think too many vendors in Asia / Europe / USA would be happy accepting pesos at the official rate.