FEATURE Los Menem SA: How ex-president’s clan invoices the state 08-08-2025 13:54 Business dealings with the state are part of the family’s income, with the Menem clan remaining close to power. A look at controversial contracts and the "series effect." by Rodis Recalt
Work in Argentina Driving and deliveries: Plan B for professionals and pensioners 01-08-2025 12:44 Transport and delivery platforms, linked to informal employment and not requiring a university education, are today drawing increasingly diverse profiles.
BOND SALE Neuquén Province ponders bond sale after investor meets 24-02-2025 16:42 The Patagonian province known for its prolific shale oil industry considers an international bond sale after private deliberations with funds including Blackrock and Neuberger Berman in New York and London.
POLITICS & ECONOMY Milei’s shock therapy ignites ‘brutal’ income inequality 20-07-2024 18:44 President Javier Milei’s economic overhaul is driving up income inequality in Argentina, testing just how much “shock therapy” his constituents can bear.
INDUSTRIAL ACTION Massive transport strike called for May 6: No trains, underground, planes or ports 30-04-2024 16:09 Walkout was called by the CATT Argentine Confederation of Transport Workers and will affect nearly all forms of transport.
IMPACT OF AUSTERITY Financing the fiscal surplus: Stories behind reduction in state spending 08-03-2024 08:52 Argentina recorded its first monthly budget surplus in nearly 12 years in January, President Milei’s first month in office. But according to one analysis, a third of those spending cuts came from a refusal to update pension payments for inflation. A look at the faces behind the figures. by Agustina Bordigoni
'Ganancias' bill Milei government's bill to restore income tax enters Congress 24-01-2024 15:55 Government plans to lower income tax floor to 1.25 million pesos, down from current 2.3 million pesos.
Congress & Politics Milei seeks to increase number of Argentines paying income tax 23-01-2024 13:33 Proposal that will be sent to Congress on Tuesday establishes that individuals making more than 1.3 million pesos (US$1,583) a month should by paying income tax.
ECONOMIC INDICATORS Argentina’s poverty rate has risen to 44.7%, says UCA body 05-12-2023 23:12 Latest study by UCA’s social debt observatory says that without welfare programmes, poverty would affect 49% of the population; Extreme poverty has risen 9.6%, finds report.
INTERVIEW Santiago Siri: ‘As a programmer, I'm threatened by Artificial Intelligence’ 07-10-2023 06:23 Santiago Siri suggests a holy trinity of “crypto, trap and La Scaloneta” will save Argentina. And he is paying attention to the progress of Artificial Intelligence.
'Ganancias' bill Argentina to all but end income tax as election spending spurs inflation 29-09-2023 09:27 Sergio Massa's push to eliminate income taxes for almost all formal workers wins approval in the upper house.
'Ganancias' bill in Congress Income tax bill clears lower house with support from Milei, left-wingers 20-09-2023 16:38 Bill to raise ‘ganancias’ threshold to 1.77 million pesos approved by lower house; 135 Frente de Todos, provincial party, leftist and libertarian deputies, among others, back it; 103 votes against, mostly Juntos por el Cambio.
MINISTER ON CAMPAIGN Massa aims portfolio power at pockets with income tax bill 14-09-2023 13:55 Economy Minister Sergio Massa raises income tax minimum threshold and programme to return IVA value-added tax, just one month before elections; Move means just 80,000 tax-payers will be paying 'ganancias' from October onwards.
POLITICS Argentina spares millions from paying income tax as vote nears 11-09-2023 21:12 Workers earning less than 1.7 million pesos (US$4,857) per month won’t have to pay income taxes as of October, up from the previous threshold of about 700,000 pesos.