In the Buenos Aires party of July 9thOne of the districts most affected by the floods, rural producers managed to survive The 50% increase in vehicle tax that the Advisory Council tried to approve ends up being only 20%..
This emerges from the opinion adopted during the week in the municipal legislative body, although the next Monday will be ratified in the general vote on the 2026 county budget.
If approved, road rates would fall $7,100 per hectare to $8,530among the $10,662 that the management of the PRO mayor of 9 de Julio had intended, Maria Jose Gentile.
Furthermore, it was achieved exempt from paying tax to producers whose fields have been declared an emergency and/or agricultural disaster.
On the other hand, they demanded details about it Road construction and maintenance planbecause although the excess water in the fields is decreasing, a large part of the country roads are still impassable.
According to the President of the Argentine Agrarian Federation (FAA) branch on July 9: Patricia GorzaAt the end of November, when they learned of the project to increase the rate by 50%, the producers requested “a meeting with the Budget Commission of the Consultative Council, to which we explained our views and informed them that we would be present at the meeting” that took place that Monday.
“There was a commission opinion signed by the majority, adopted by the ruling party La Libertad Avanza and Peronism, which contained this 50% increase, and another was presented by a minority of radicalists, which proposed an adjustment for the forecast inflation that reached 20%. But this opinion had little chance of being published A group of producers were present during the meeting on Monday.which was quite tense and at 2 a.m., because of our pressure, it was agreed that the minority law was passed,” Gorza said.
Just as they were present at the decision, they will also be present at the decision general vote of the project in the “Big Taxpayers” session. “So that there are no surprises”.
9 de Julio was one of the communities most affected by floods And although the water in the fields began to recede last month, access to them is extremely difficult.
“The road network remains impassable. We continue with great effort and know that we have January and February to complete the work (on the roads), because in March, when the normal rainfall for the season occurs, we will close all the roads. We will not be able to reap the big harvest,” Gorza said.
Furthermore, he claimed that the campaign was thick “The sowing takes place very late and with great difficulty. It started 10 days ago when we should have done it a month and a half ago, then we got there.”
Regarding the $1.9 billion in aid promised by the nation at the end of November for parties affected by the floods, Gorza said the community has received it 172 million dollars Of the machines they sent, only a backhoe, a grader and an army truck remained, along with those that had already come from Buenos Aires province.
“Fixed 1% or 2%mainly the access roads to the cities. “The road network in our municipality is 2,000 kilometers,” he concluded.
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