Argentine supermarkets must keep records of clients that spend plus 210 dollars
Argentine supermarkets must keep records of sales of plus 1.000 Pesos which must be available to tax inspectors, according to the latest decision from AFIP the tax revenue office. A thousand Pesos at the official rate is equivalent to 210 dollars and in the parallel 140 dollars.
To avoid the inconvenience many supermarkets are extending their clients two tickets splitting the final bill.
The AFIP original resolution was first implemented in 1998 but at the time the threshold was 250 dollars. AFIP established the new 1.000 Pesos plus purchase fill out form at the end of last year but started its implementation this month.
According to the Buenos Aires media the Chamber of Commerce and the Supermarkets association, on more than one occasion has requested AFIP to elevate the value of the final consumer bill.
“It is true the supermarket chains try to avoid conflicts with clients and have the cashiers close the bill when it reaches 950 Pesos”, admitted one of the managers. He added “this has become routine practice since before a 1.000 pesos purchase was a rarity unless it was the purchase of a television or a fridge, but now a days with the current inflation in any hyper market filling a cart easily reaches that sum”.
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These restrictions are coming thick and fast. A sign that the government is getting ever more desperate.
My gut is telling me CFK is deliberately trying to crash the system again and the only reason I can think of is to impose martial law “TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE!”
Watch, this is how democracy dies.
And they wonder why the Falkland Islanders don't want to be Argentinian.
Hello CFK, are you on planet Earth?
Scary stuff happening...
Lets see...
1) Mass shootings happening on a daily basis in the USA
2) Neo Nazism discovered to be rampant in the US military
3) they are burning mosques down in the USA, shooting own minority religions
4) people are panicking for the simple act of going to watch a movie
5) Euro zone is crumbling all around
6) Unemployment in France and Italy are now 11%
7) UK plunges into its 2nd recession in 4 years
8) London Security building floods with sewer liquids
9) one year aniversary of the UK riots
10) Putin is hunting down all opposition (100 worse than anything in Argie)
11) Massive toxic scandal in China
12) Syria
13) Mali
But heck, LETS WORRY ABOUT ARGIES SPENDING OVER 210 DOLLARS AT SUPERMARKET TRIPS.
May I suggest the priorities of everyone here are obscene they are not even funny anymore. Most of their countries are DISASTERS!! But heck lets worry about Argieland!
When you put it that way Argentinas problems do pale into insignificance, but Argentina is a mighty nation chocked, stifled, bound, over regulated and held back by a monstrously inept regime. They are capable of so much more, only a few decades back they were on par with Brazil and a few decades before that they were more than half of the total South American GDP and a few decades before that they were as rich as the most developed nations on earth eclipsing Spain, Italy etc.
Argentina wake up!!!!!!!!!!
This thread is about Argentine people being spied upon for spending more than 1,000 pesos, it's not about mass shootings or any of the other subjects you listed.
If you haven't got anything relevant to post, then just don't post.
Stop trying to divert attention away from the subject of this thread. You are now making this distraction 'method' away from Argentine woes so blatantly obvious, that it's actually quite embarrassing.
May I suggest that it is the priorities of your government that are 'obscene and not funny'. You also failed to pass comment on subject matter? Oh, will del potro be having a photo with turkey neck at the casa rosada with the magnificent accolade of your one bronze medal? Or will he tell her to shove it again?
I think you have trouble focusing attention deficit? We are talking about your country's government. FOCUS
Classic example of irreverent ranting to detract from the article value. I'd go down to the smoke and mirrors shop if I were you, the ones your using these days are wearing a bit thin, mindful not to spend more than a 1000 pesos though!!!! unless your intending to purchase a spying glass
Added to this is the rise in inflation, so food prices are ever increasing, so spending this amount on food in one shop is entirely plausible.
Why are these bunch of crooks allowed to get away with this? At least the supermarkets seem to have their heads screwed on right by 'splitting' the bill so the customer doesn't go over the 1000 peso mark, but it must cause lots of delays and added administration costs to do these things.
If the government is THIS desperate for money, then surely the big 'crash' can't be far away.
I bet the 'Dear Leader' has packed her bags and has a helicopter on standby for when the bubble finally bursts, and she'll be legging it to foreign shores (probably Cuba via Venezula).
One of you asked why the Government (so to speak) are interested in people who spend ARS$1.000 in supermarkets. As I see it there are two main lines of interest:
1) To identify hoarders, as people try to hedge against inflation.
2) To identify people who are “big spenders” in a bid to identify organized crime.
This was put into practice in 1998, but has never really shown any success, the new values that the AFIP put in place last month are ridiculous, just as an example, my wife and I spend about ARS$3.500 per month at the supermarket, doing our buying daily to ensure fresh produce, but many people who live on farms or outside town do one shopping trip per month.
Just another idiotic move by an idiotic Government!!!!!
“Argentine president declared assets valued in 8.6 million dollars”
en.mercopress.com/2012/08/07/argentine-president-declared-assets-valued-in-8.6-million-dollars
Although if rhe corruption is that big a problem a nice lunch for the tax inspector makes the problem go away :(.
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