translated from Spanish: Alfredo Cornejo stated that the tax on great fortunes is “for the rostrum”

The president of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) and national deputy for Mendoza, Alfredo Cornejo, again rejected the idea driven since officialism to create an extraordinary tax on higher estates, considering that it is “more for the rostrum than anything else.” There is a lot of account in Argentina: we have a very regressive tax system that finances the state with consumption taxes; the key tax should be Earnings and Personal Property,” Cornejo said, questioning the initiative on which lawmakers from the Front of All work.The truth is that as raised from the Front of All, the project aims to strengthen the tax collection of the state, in the midst of the claim of a part of society for the political leadership to make a cut in income to go to the fight against the pandemic.

“Bringing this to coronavirus seems to me nothing more than a story that sounds good, but the rich have no properties because they don’t specifically have them in their name but from trusts and businesses: changing that would be innovative,” the national legislator said. Thus, Cornejo wondered: “Why wasn’t it done during the years of Kirchnerism’s rule? It’s a resource of pure discourse, and I see it more for the rostrum than anything else.” Yesterday, the Argentine ambassador to Spain, Ricardo Alfonsín, had called on THE UCR to support the creation of “a tax on Argentina’s great fortunes” to “raise funds aimed at tackling the pandemic” of coronavirus.

The initiative in question is led by MP Carlos Heller, who dismissed the initiative being the one that has been circling social media in recent days and noted that just “by the end of next week” he will be in a position to present the project to the Chamber of Deputies.” The whole world is discussing these issues. There is a great discussion in Europe to create extraordinary taxes on the rich, because this whole crisis leads to falling activity and exponential increase in spending to address the pandemic and large resources are required,” Heller said.

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