Argentina scraps advance PAIS tax on imports
Argentina’s tax authority (ARCA) has announced that it eliminated the 95% advance payments of the PAIS tax (Impuesto Para una Argentina Inclusiva y Solidaria) on foreign currency purchases for imports, effective 25 November 2024. This is
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Argentina announces new interest rates for late tax payments
Argentina’s Federal Tax Authority (ARCA) announced the new interest rates in Auction Rate Securities (ARS) applicable to late tax payments for the period from 1 December 2024 to 31 January 2025. The rates have been calculated in accordance with
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Argentina sets tax and customs benefits for new large investment incentive regime
Argentina’s tax authority, ARCA (formerly AFIP), announced General Resolution 5590/2024, which outlines the application of tax and customs benefits under the new Special Incentive Scheme for Large Investments (Régimen de Incentivo para Grandes
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Argentina updates regime rules to boost major investments
Argentina’s Executive Branch has modified Decree 749/2024, which implemented the regime to promote large investments (Régimen de Incentivo para Grandes Inversiones, RIGI ) to provide more clarity or expand specific provisions on 21 October
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Argentina, Luxembourg sign protocol for pending tax treaty
Argentina and Luxembourg signed an amending protocol to the 2019 income and capital tax treaty on 25 October 2024. The tax treaty aims to eliminate double taxation on income and capital taxes while preventing tax evasion and fraud between
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Argentina ratifies tax treaty with China
Argentina ratified the income and capital tax treaty with China, Law 27780 was published in the Official Gazette on 18 October 2024. This income tax treaty aims to eliminate double taxation on income and capital, ensuring it does not create
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Argentina dissolves tax authority, removes select VAT exemptions
Argentina’s government announced in a release on 21 October 2024 that the Federal Administration of Public Revenue (Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos —AFIP) will be abolished, and the Tax Collection and Customs Control Agency
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Argentina gets first financial data exchange from the US
Argentina’s federal tax authority (AFIP) announced that it received its first exchange of financial account information from the US on 2 October 2024. Similarly, Argentina has issued a statement stating that it sent financial information
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Argentina approves pending tax treaty with Austria
Argentina's Chamber of Deputies approved the laws for the ratification of the pending income and capital tax treaties with Austria on 1 October 2024. This treaty aims to prevent double taxation between the two nations. Signed on 6 December
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Argentina approves pending tax treaty with China
Argentina's Chamber of Deputies approved the laws for the ratification of the pending income and capital tax treaties with China on 1 October 2024. This income tax treaty aims to eliminate double taxation on income and capital, ensuring it does
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Argentina introduces new procedure for tax residence certificates
Argentina’s tax authority (AFIP) announced a new procedure for obtaining a certificate of tax residence for individuals and legal entities. The rules were outlined in General Resolution 5572 and published in the Official Gazette on 24 September
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Argentina extends tax amnesty opt-in deadlines
Argentina’s Executive Branch issued Decree 864/2024, which extends the deadlines to opt for the tax amnesty regime, published in the Official Gazette of 30 September 2024. The tax amnesty regime was introduced by Law 27,743 setting new
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Argentina: Budget Bill 2025 proposes scrapping foreign currency purchase tax
The Argentine National Executive Branch presented the 2025 Budget Bill to Congress, which made no significant changes to the current tax framework except for eliminating the tax on foreign currency purchases (PAIS tax rate) starting 1 January
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Argentina, Turkey tax treaty enters into force
The income tax treaty between Argentina and Turkey came into effect on 13 September 2024. The treaty applies from 1 January 2025. Signed on 1 December 2018, this treaty is the first between the two nations. Earlier, Argentina ratified the tax
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Argentina ratifies income tax treaty with Turkey
Argentina has ratified the pending income tax treaty with Turkey on 9 September 2024. The announcement was made in Law 27754, published in Argentina’s Official Gazette. The Argentina-Turkey tax treaty, signed on 1 December 2018, is the first
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Argentina lowers tax rate (PAIS) on foreign currency for imports and freight services
The Argentine National Executive Branch published Decree 777/2024 in the Official Gazette on 2 September 2024. This decree amends the tax rates applicable to certain foreign currency purchases (Impuesto PAIS) related to payments made abroad for
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Argentina, Vietnam negotiating income tax treaty
Argentina and Vietnam have initiated negotiations for an income tax treaty. The aim of establishing a double tax treaty is to eliminate double taxation and avoidance of tax evasion between the two countries. Both nations seek to align this tax
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Argentina annuls intermediary withholding of VAT, income tax
Argentina’s tax authority (AFIP) announced, in a release, that the withholding regimes for value-added tax (VAT) and income tax on electronic payments will be repealed, effective from 1 September 2024. This follows after Argentina’s Ministry
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