The Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, met with the country's main supermarket chains, who came up with a strong diagnosis: the biggest obstacle today is not the macroeconomy, but the municipal taxes that directly make prices more expensive and hit consumption.
Executives from companies such as Cencosud, Carrefour, Changomás, Coto, Día and La Anónima participated in the meeting. As the minister himself explained, businessmen pointed out that many of these rates “do not have a consideration to justify them”, which makes them a cost that ends up being transferred directly to the prices that
consumers pay.
Criticism was especially concentrated in municipalities in the Buenos Aires suburbs, where Kirchner management predominates. Among the cases mentioned, the one in Lanús, governed by Julián Álvarez (PJ), stood out, where the rate reaches 6.36%. The municipality of Pilar, under the management of Federico Achával (PJ), was also singled out for applying a scheme that combines a rate of 4.50%, an additional education fund and a perception of 2% per “environmental” rate
