After the government appointed Andrés Edgardo Vázquez as the new head of the Customs Collection and Control Agency (ARCA). Mariano Mengochea as the new owner of the General Tax Directorate (DGI), a position previously held by Vázquez himself.
The official will take office on December 18thas specified in the Decree 891/2025published this Wednesday in the Official Journal.
The decision was announced a few days after it was officially announced the resignation of the former director of ARCA, Juan Alberto Pazowho has served as head of the national collection point since the resignation of Florencia Misrahi in December 2024. Vázquez will be the third official to hold the position since President Javier Milei took office.
The General Directorate of Taxes is the main operational branch of the tax system and concentrates most tax tasks. Inspection and collection.
Mengochea has an extensive career at ARCA and knows DGI’s management first-hand: he has been in charge since October 2024 general subdirectorate of metropolitan tax operationswhere he acted as Vázquez’s right-hand man.
His task was to directly support the leadership of the DGI in the implementation of financial policy, control of internal taxes and supervision of social security resources. He previously held various hierarchical positions: In 2009 he was a supervisor and since 2013 he has been head of the inspection department.
Over the course of his career, Mengochea – 55 years old and auditor Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Buenos Aires – developed a Extensive career in customs in La Plata as a technical affairs analyst and was Teach in Finance and Tax Law at the Vázquez Chair at the University of Lomas de Zamora.
His wife, the accountant Cynthia GalzeranoShe is also a civil servant: she has worked at ARCA since 2015 and currently works as Advisor to the General Subdirectorate of Tax Operations for Large Taxpayers. She is the daughter of Antonio Galzerano, Vázquez’s partner at DVQP Sportsa company in the sports industry that appears in the affidavit of the current ARCA boss.
The appointment of Mengochea and Vázquez to the management of the debt collection agency took place as part of a rinternal organization of the organism. After the departure of Pazo, who was allied with the Minister of Economy Luis Caputo, leadership was left in the hands of Vázquez, an official near presidential adviser Santiago Caputo.
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