New Online Purchasing Laws

[Bajo_cero2]

Imports through mail pays 50% tax.

Your credit card has to pay the vendor in a foreign currency, not pesos, so the central bank has to exchange pesos for dollars. You are going to pay in pesos.

 

[Gaucho_ec]

Problem for all you "everyone should have proof of income" is that the gov't itself has lot of "en negro" workers. Fix that first if what you really want is people paying taxes.
What they want, is just to close the dollar runaway to keep financing plans and K biz at 50% of the cost (btw new K hotel at Calafate built on lands onl meant to be sold to people without a house)

 

[Bajo_cero2]

Problem for all you "everyone should have proof of income" is that the gov't itself has lot of "en negro" workers. Fix that first if what you really want is people paying taxes.
What they want, is just to close the dollar runaway to keep financing plans and K biz at 50% of the cost (btw new K hotel at Calafate built on lands onl meant to be sold to people without a house)

Well, this is another bizarre thread where people complains because they cannot evade taxes or immigration freely. Then this is north korea, right?

Can you please explain me how much is the salary of a politician in the US? Because the houses just besides the sea i saw in annapolis cannot be bought with their salary for sure.

Oooh, i forgot, bribes are legal there. They use an euphemism, lobby.

Seems that the only politician who lives with his salary is Mujica.

 

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Imports through mail pays 50% tax.

Your credit card has to pay the vendor in a foreign currency, not pesos, so the central bank has to exchange pesos for dollars. You are going to pay in pesos.

I can't quite understand the point of this initiative. The articles I have read don't seem to explain it properly.

It doesn't really stop dollars going out of the country, as the new piece of paper doesn't need to be approved (it is just a tracking tool).

It may act as a deterrent as it is just a pain in the neck to do. But that's about it. Seems like a waste of time to me.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

I can't quite understand the point of this initiative. The articles I have read don't seem to explain it properly.

It doesn't really stop dollars going out of the country, as the new piece of paper doesn't need to be approved (it is just a tracking tool).

It may act as a deterrent as it is just a pain in the neck to do. But that's about it. Seems like a waste of time to me.

Tax enforcement plus stop mail contraband.
If you buy a lot of ítems for resell, now you are out of busisness. With this info in the computers, they can easily identity who do contraband with mail as a living and prosecute them .

 

[irina]

I think a big problem is that they can just decide themselves (aduana) that your declaracion jurada is too low, "300 pesos for a used iPhone? No, I say $500 sounds about right" and then charge $250 for the 50% tax. Am I wrong? Because that goes further than just paying what you're due to pay in taxes, it can become abusive.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

I think a big problem is that they can just decide themselves (aduana) that your declaracion jurada is too low, "300 pesos for a used iPhone? No, I say $500 sounds about right" and then charge $250 for the 50% tax. Am I wrong? Because that goes further than just paying what you're due to pay in taxes, it can become abusive.

Customs have books with the prices of many ítems. They use them to avoid fake ultra low invoices.

Used ítems are probably not allowed.

Plus, many products from China has a mínimum taxable rate. For example, bikes used to pay taxes like they cost 100 usd when the price was 5 usd.

Clothes and shoes have higher taxes regarding to protect local industry from China where they don t have to pay extra hours, medical insurance or vacation to their workers.

It used to be like 100% tax.

The US have similar regulations regarding products or industries they want to protect.

I remember that when i helped my former girlfriend to import some special furnace from China to NYC she didn t have to pay any tax just because this was something for cooking chinese cakes while standard comercial furnace was taxable.

 

[dennisr]

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.

Taxes, all well and good, however, to finance the likes of, football for all, Aerolíneas Argentinas, World Cup TV rights, AFA, flat screens for everyone...... Give me a break.

 

[Gaucho_ec]

Well, this is another bizarre thread where people complains because they cannot evade taxes or immigration freely. Then this is north korea, right?

Can you please explain me how much is the salary of a politician in the US? Because the houses just besides the sea i saw in annapolis cannot be bought with their salary for sure.

Oooh, i forgot, bribes are legal there. They use an euphemism, lobby.

Seems that the only politician who lives with his salary is Mujica.

I have no idea what an US politician makes, not here to attack or defend them. But if you wanna know as a class, I despise them.
You made all a context about my post that you couldn't be more wrong. Except for the part that I don't have much respect for law enforcers who don't follow the law that they create, as this gov't in general.

 

[syngirl]

Well, this is another bizarre thread where people complains because they cannot evade taxes or immigration freely. Then this is north korea, right?

As far as I understood there were no import duties on books. The example I used was not talking about electronics, just books in foreign languages that are not available in this country in the first place (and this goes beyond books for kids and into research books which a lot of academics here require). I have my DNI and my status in order, I make maybe 200 USD a year in purchases via Amazon -- if I were carrying 200 bucks of books in via Ezeiza they wouldn't even bother to stop me since it's under the limit, but now for these purchases I will have to go and file with the AFIP? That's ridiculous. This is why I say I bet they haven't even got anything figured out. If you're going to regulate online purchases at least apply the same rules as you would with purchases coming through Ezeiza.

This is not North Korea, obviously, but this govt is constantly rolling out protectionist policies that are ultimately a detriment to the country.

Clothes and shoes have higher taxes regarding to protect local industry from China where they don t have to pay extra hours, medical insurance or vacation to their workers.

Most of the local industry here doesn't pay the extra hours, medical insurance, or vacation anyway, so really that is a bad excuse for why there are taxes on Chinese imports. The local industry is rampant with sweatshop conditions and illegalities. I don't think most of the textile industry here can boast any better conditions that Chinese or Bengladeshi workshops. The majority of the high end brand names here have been caught using sweatshop situations and they charge ridiculous amounts for their products -- money that in most cases is not going towards paying proper salaries nor safe working conditions.