They ask municipalities to explain how they spent the fees charged to the countryside.

District 6 of the Argentine Rural Society requested the 365 municipalities and communes of the province of Santa Fe to publicly reporthow much money they collected through the Rural Communal Tax between 2019 and 2024, and how those resources have been allocated.

The request was made through a request for access to information, questioning the lack of transparency in the administration of those funds. The producers argued that this tax must be allocated exclusively to the maintenance of rural roads.

They pointed out that the tax was created by Provincial Law No. 8173 and that the communes are obliged to account for its use. For this reason, they demanded detailed documentation including the tax settlement, the balances of each commune, and the list of works carried out on the rural road network.

Soledad Diez de Tejada, a board member of District 6 in Santa Fe, supported the claim, arguing that the right to access public information is guaranteed by Argentine legislation and by rulings of the Supreme Court of Justice and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

She also mentioned the recent Provincial Law No. 14,256, which reinforces the obligation of transparency in data governance. She demanded that the municipalities respond within 15 days, warning that if they do not, legal actions will be initiated before the Administrative Litigation Chamber.

Additionally, she filed a specific complaint against the Commune of Sancti Spiritu, requesting a review of the ordinance regulating the tax and the restitution of payments considered undue.

The request submitted by Diez de Tejada also includes a request for information on the settlement of the Rural Communal Tax, the balances of the communes between 2019 and 2024, the extension in hectares of the fields within each jurisdiction, the costs of the services financed with the tax in that same period, and the documentation that accredits the tasks carried out for the maintenance of rural roads, in accordance with the current tax ordinance.

According to their explanation, the producers' intention with this presentation is to analyze and, if necessary, substantiate future challenges to the regulation scheme of the General Rural Property Tax.

"Taxpayers who pay this tax are unaware of the destination of the funds and report that they do not translate into road maintenance," they warned.

The producers demanded that the communal authorities deliver the requested information within a 15-day period without the possibility of extension, under the warning of initiating the corresponding legal actions.

"If the requested information is not provided in full or in part, the corresponding legal actions will be initiated before the Administrative Litigation Chamber with jurisdiction in their area, having to bear the legal costs of their non-compliance," they specified.