New Online Purchasing Laws

[Bajo_cero2]

Filling out tax returns is not the same as buying stuff off the internet. For a country that is so
incompetent at every level of government you'd think you'd want less paperwork, not more...

Both are taxes.

Now you need a hard copy of the form but this is going to be online soon.

 

[dennisr]

Both are taxes.

Now you need a hard copy of the form but this is going to be online soon.

But you will need electricity to make this work.

 

[Ries]

You guys have it backwards for US politicians- unlike in Argentina, where you become a politician, and THEN you get rich, in the USA, it works the other way around- FIRST you have to be rich, then you buy a political office as a status symbol.
Its more like an Audi is here.
The main qualifier to be in Congress is you must be a millionaire.
It costs around $20 million to run for US Senate.

The rich guys dont get any bribes in the US- they PAY the bribes. Being a politician in the USA can certainly help get you a good no-work job afterwards, but you still have to be a millionaire first from something else to get in the door.

And, no, Bajo Cero, you do not "fill in afidavits" to pay taxes in the USA- taxes are automatically included in purchases, like IVA here, and no fancy forms of any kind are required to buy most anything there, except real estate. You can still walk into a car dealer with a brown paper sack full of hundred dollar bills, and drive off with a car.

One very big difference between the USA and Argentina, which tells you a lot about this subject- every cash register in Argentina has a special RS232 jack on it, which has a little sticker above it that says "Uso AFIP". I hate to tell you this, but nothing like this exists in the US.

 

[Jaredberryman]

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 .

No, you are not out of business. Most people who buy items for resale have a "contact" within aduana that they give money to push their items through. There is no such thing as people who ship over hundreds of items, pay the tax, and then sell it. Aduana detects this sort of thing already. This won't halt the resale of items from abroad by the people on Mercadolibre. The people who do this legitimately have a permission to import already, or they do it as contraband by paying a contact within Aduana. I really think this measure is just about squeezing more revenue out of people.

 

[Gringoboy]

It's quite clear that La Campora got to you BC, when you were still in the womb.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

You guys have it backwards for US politicians- unlike in Argentina, where you become a politician, and THEN you get rich, in the USA, it works the other way around- FIRST you have to be rich, then you buy a political office as a status symbol.
Its more like an Audi is here.
The main qualifier to be in Congress is you must be a millionaire.
It costs around $20 million to run for US Senate.

The rich guys dont get any bribes in the US- they PAY the bribes. Being a politician in the USA can certainly help get you a good no-work job afterwards, but you still have to be a millionaire first from something else to get in the door.

And, no, Bajo Cero, you do not "fill in afidavits" to pay taxes in the USA- taxes are automatically included in purchases, like IVA here, and no fancy forms of any kind are required to buy most anything there, except real estate. You can still walk into a car dealer with a brown paper sack full of hundred dollar bills, and drive off with a car.

One very big difference between the USA and Argentina, which tells you a lot about this subject- every cash register in Argentina has a special RS232 jack on it, which has a little sticker above it that says "Uso AFIP". I hate to tell you this, but nothing like this exists in the US.

I agree with most of what you said. It's also worth noting that you don't have to prove you've paid your taxes - the IRS can question your tax returns, but you don't have to prove their accuracy unless they do so. By contrast AFIP appears to require you to prove a negative.

 

[Gringoboy]

According to The Captain, this measure is to protect local Argentine industry.
The odd thing with this announcement is that we've all become so accustomed to them living in an alternative universe that it's no longer comical.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

Ríes, when you are already rich it is not so obvious if you become richer.

If you legalize bribes it is not so obvious that you are corrup because you sell your power to somebody who probably has different interest than the people who voted you, but you use an euphemism: lobby.

However, this is off topic.

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

Those elections in 2015 look a long way off now....was half way through planning to import some products into Argentina, started the process of registering with the relevamt agencies as an importer and had even budgeted for paying bribes.

Now, forget about it. I'll sit back and watch the show without risking my capital. It can stay offshore, legally. Will have to bin my resignation letter.

Shows the lack of intelligence in this govt that when they most need dollars and inward investment they make it as unappealling as possible. Perhaps they think their shrinking pool of dollars will mate and reproduce like the magical self multiplying peso.

I suppose the tourism sector will be glad, steadily increasing numbers of people are coming here on the back of the blue dollar which is now moving to quickly to assign a nickname everytime it crashes through another barrier.

 

[ARbound]

Can someone tell me if this is the case or just another instance of BAH not translating correctly:

"According to the updated regulations, buyers will have to complete a sworn statement and will be limited to two purchases per year via internet, if the seller is based overseas. "

I'm very confused and if true going to completely stop domestic spending so I can flee this failing country ASAP