The Chamber of Deputies of the Nation approved the modifications made by the Senate, and converted into Law, with 156 positive votes, an initiative that modifies Law 20,628 on Income Tax, to exempt “medical professionals, assistants and health technicians from paying this tax, in services of medical guards mandatory.
The original wording of the modification provided that only the amounts paid when they exceed four medical guards 24 hours per month. However, the senators unanimously decided to modify it so that it covers all guards and overtimeUnlimited.
With the approval of the new standard, the aim is to prevent professionals and auxiliaries from covering a greater number of work shifts. medical guards, “so as not to jump to a higher tax category”, due to the increase in their remuneration and exceeding the non-taxable minimum. Besides, They hope that this modification will facilitate the coverage of licenses and manage to “keep the rosters full”they explained.
The amendment to article 27 of the Income Tax Law establishes the exemption “of the remuneration received as guards, whether active or passive, by professionals, technicians, assistants and operating personnel of security systems public or private healthThroughout the national territory.
For the president of the Senate health commission, Pablo Yedlin, the sanction of Deputies it is “an act of justice”, and he recalled that during the health emergency due to the pandemic, “all professionals were exempted from earnings”regardless of how many monthly shifts they carried out, for which it seemed to us that now, without that emergency, “it would be an act of justice that would be extended to all health professionals,” he said.
