In recent weeks, operations with the AFIP on the nautical sector in berths in San Fernando, San Isidro and Nordelta, in Tigre, have intensified
For iProfessional
01/15/2023 – 12:04 p.m.
The Collection Agency of the province of Buenos Aires (ARBA) In recent months, 974 enforcement actions have been initiated, for a total amount of $217 million, to recover debts from taxpayers who owe the Sports Boat Tax, within the framework of inspection and collection actions in high-income segments.
The collection by court includes owners of important vessels, with a length greater than seven meters, who owe several installments of the provincial tax. On average, these are debts of more than $222,000.
“With this measure we are recovering resources from sectors with high economic power, from evident tax capacityto later turn them to the construction of routes, more schools and kindergartens, sanitary infrastructure and better services that allow to continue expanding rights and transforming the Province”, explained Cristian Girard, director of ARBA. In this line, he pointed out that ” all that the government of Axel Kicillof finances it with genuine resources, and from ARBA we seek to recover those resources among those who have the most.”
“We want to improve the culture of tax compliance, and we provide opportunities for taxpayers to catch up,” he said. Girard, and pointed out that “in the event that they do not comply, we proceed with this type of control actions and then with the collection management, issuing executive titles and, if necessary, seizing the accounts, because they are people who have the economic capacity to pay” .
Operations intensified
In addition to these actions to recover debt through the courts, in recent weeks the Collection Agency intensified joint operations with the Federal Administration of Public Revenues to inspect nautical parks, nurseries and piers, in order to detect sports boats without declaring or intimidating who owe taxes
As part of this work, the ARBA inspection teams carried out an operation in a yacht club in San Isidro, where they detected three unregistered vessels and another 11 that registered a global debt of more than $18 million.
ARBA started lawsuits to recover debts from luxury boat owners who owe $217 million
That adds to the 65 yachts, sailboats and speedboats not declareds, which were discovered two weeks ago in San Fernando, as well as the almost 600 vessels that accumulated a total debt of $40 million, also at a mooring in that district.
In Nordelta, one of the towns in the Tigre district, nine unregistered large vesselsanother seven with debts of more than half a million pesos, among other minor irregularities in tax compliance.
“It is important to continue working on tax compliance, so that those who own boats know that there is a tax to pay and a collection agency willing to proceed with the judicial collection mechanisms if they do not show willingness to pay,” stressed the head of ARBA.
He added that in that sense “The AFIP does the same, also in the same line, with those assets that are not declared in the patrimonies to evade the payment of Personal Assets”.
The joint task of ARBA and AFIP on the nautical sector, and other high-income segments that register a high level of non-compliance, has already covered San Fernando, San Isidro and Nordelta, in Tigre, and will continue throughout the summer in municipalities in northern Buenos Aires and the Atlantic coast.
