state government buenos aires On Monday this week, the government presented a set of guidelines for the 2026 Finance and Taxation Act. This is an effort to consolidate the package being negotiated in Congress, along with budget and debt demands. The executive director of the Buenos Aires Recovery Agency (ARBA) said at a press conference: Christian Girardthe government rejected it Axel Kisilov We applied strong tax pressure and accordingly highlighted project points on real estate tax, motor vehicle tax, and gross income tax. He called for the initiative to be approved, unlike what happened with the Finance and Taxation Act 2025, which did not pass the legislative filter.
Regarding urban and rural real estate taxes, Mr. Girard expressed his belief that the tax burden will not increase. “For 2024 (the last fiscal and tax law approved), we have not introduced any table or tax rate changes. The same theoretical tax burden for a 2024 project is what would be included in a 2026 project. We have also not applied a tax base multiplier factor, so each property will be in the same bracket as in 2024. We have eliminated the surcharge,” Girard explained at a meeting led by government ministers. carlos biancothe president of Banco Provincia also participated, Juan Cuattromo.
“It is guaranteed that no one will have to pay more tax in real terms in 2024. 80% of real estate properties will have a fee of less than P12,000, which means they will be taxed P60,000 annually,” Girard added.
Referring to motor vehicle tax, the Commissioner of the Buenos Aires Collection Office gave a series of examples of cars of different valuations for which the payment of license fees is cheaper. “In some cases, it’s reduced by more than 50%,” he emphasized.
Girard said that “last year, because there was no (tax) law,” they issued car taxes “on the same 2024 table, but at the price of the vehicle last November,” adding: “With the appreciation of the dollar, the price of cars has increased significantly, and many cars have started paying higher tax rates on the same 2024 table.” “To eliminate these distortions, three out of four cars have their license plates nominally lowered,” he said.
Regarding automobile tax, Mr. Girard said, “We changed the tax rate from 15 to 5.We lowered the minimum tax rate from 3.64% to 1%, and the maximum tax rate from 5% to 4.5%.” “Eight percent of the collection came from motor vehicle tax collections,” he said. “Our projection is that that will be 5 percent. This puts the state among the least burdened on these assets among large jurisdictions.”
Another axis that Girard emphasized was total revenue. “You will read a lot in the press about how the tax pressure in the state is very high because the state has the highest tax rate in the country, but 85% pay their taxes under the reduced tax rate system,” he highlighted in that section of his presentation.
The ARBA director general said that gross income tax rates will remain unchanged and, unlike the tax project approved for 2024, “no special advance payments will be applied to highly concentrated high-income taxpayers.”
“We intend to maintain the system of reduced and increased tax rates, which means that companies with lower claims will pay a lower tax rate than in the general system. We intend to update the section by 40%, which will benefit the 46,000 small and medium-sized enterprises that will pay reduced tax rates. 85% of gross income taxpayers pay reduced tax rates,” Girard emphasized.
“We hope that it will be approved by Congress in the coming weeks,” the ARBA chief hoped as he concluded his presentation on Kisilov’s tax project. The project had already been submitted by the governor to the administration last Monday, along with a budget proposal and debt request (worth up to US$1.99 billion). The three efforts are tied to negotiations with opposition parties within Congress, as well as to wings of the state ruling party itself, and involve internal leadership between groups that correspond to the governor and the former president. Christina Kirchner.
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