AFIP will implement a tax control system in the sale of beef that will allow for a 71% increase in the number of payments in a sector that registers a 40% evasion rate, announced the head of AFIP, Alberto Abad.
The official said that the same system will be applied to the marketing of poultry and pork, and announced that within two months a system of electronic bank payments will come into effect for real estate transactions.
Abad stated that the The meat sector is a "sector with a very high level of tax evasion, around 40%" due to illegal slaughter, under-invoicing of kilos of meat and marketing, attacking in a first phase the wholesale stage, and which will continue with the control of the butcher shops.
In four months of implementing the new system, which allows for the creation of an electronic record that controls the total traceability of animal movements, 390 thousand settlements were issued for more than $90 billion.
AFIP officials said that in June they used this system to pay VAT on more than 4 million animals, which corresponds to 99% of the cattle that were slaughtered.
Non-payment enables the AFIP to remove producers and slaughterers from the registry that allows them to carry out the activity.
Abad explained that the goal is to "identify all the participants in the operations and the movement of each animal, from the moment it leaves the herd until it reaches the butcher shop."
He pointed out that so far more than $210 million in advance payments have been received than before, which represents a record of 5% more animals slaughtered, and that advance payments for VAT have increased by 71%.
Abad acknowledged that "this shows that very little was being paid and acknowledged that we still have to continue working because there is still under-invoicing."
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