in The last period of the year, when municipalities close the numbers, adjust and recalculate every peso for the new yearMunicipality of Buenos Aires Colonel Suarez Progress in the Deliberative Council on the Ziyada project road tax, Zoom in Free rates to take advantage of the tax and add fuel surcharges. The current system provides for payment $8,500 per hectare and there will be a new surcharge of 10%. The current system indicates this 70% of road tax revenues must go to the Road Commission. Producers deplore the lack of compensation for the service.
In that municipality If someone makes a late payment, the money automatically goes into the freely available funds of the municipality, without mandatory referral to the Roads Commission. The new project presented by the ruling party, which responds to the mayor Ricardo Mucheroin office since 2019 and allied with the governor Axel Kiselov, It is proposed to increase the percentage of free access to municipalities to 94%.In addition to applying A 10% surcharge and an additional 2% on fuel sold at the match.
According to the producers, this measure comes at the worst times and breaks any production equation. Juan RiboliniOne agricultural producer in the region said: “When it comes to production, do the math, and then you find an increase that was not taken into account. In agriculture, the calculations are indeed very limited. A mid-campaign increase is not sustainable. Even more so in a context where there are no roads: we only have 50% of the roads passable.
The concern, other than the increase, also lies in the lack of maintenance and compensation for the service for which the road tax pays: “It’s institutional anger. There are no roads. Methods that rely on an integrated commission between the public and private sectors do not manage the money: 94% goes to public revenues and the remaining 6% goes to health. “What goes up to the committee is my discretion.” Rebolini stressed that the situation was exacerbated by the alleged lack of control and independence: “If the committee wants to borrow to buy a grader, it can’t: it depends on the mayor’s signature. The free rate is not a rate, but rather a tax.
In the epidemic, The municipality had promoted similar surcharges on “medical supplies,” which, according to producers, It was canceled just two months ago in the trading house.
The area has 2,500 kilometers of rural roads, but the road authority – depending on the product – operates only four machines For the entire track, in addition to taking responsibility for maintenance 35 km from Regional Route 67which is the section that should be paved, and although it was opened twice, it was never achieved. Rebolini also said that as a result of this situation, The producers began fighting among themselves “because the roads are impassable and people still have to pass.”With which traffic begins to deteriorate due to the marks left by vehicles.
In conversation with nation, Mayor Mucheru He defended the decision to increase the price:We have a hospital here that everyone uses because it is much better than a private clinic. We don’t depend on permanent expenses: we have 140 doctors and the guards cost 500,000 pesos a day. Joint participation declined due to deductions from the nation to the governorate, and from the governorate to the municipalities. “Every municipality must support itself with taxes.”
Mucheru, who also says he is an agricultural producer, relativized the impact of the increase: “To me, a 10% road tax increase means practically nothing. A cage of calves is 60 million. In lots of 400 hectares, the rate does not reach 4 million. The agricultural sector is the one that achieves the largest and best income It is in very good condition. The harvest is expected to be record this year.”
The mayor, who confirmed that the increase was being promoted by the municipality, insisted that it was a vision of social transformation: “The idea is to increase road prices by 10%. We are at the regional average. This margin goes to health and social development. This is how we put together the budget.”
He said that in 2023 For professionals The local government did not provide a budget guarantee for the fee “She was young” The opposition in 2024/25 did not approve the budget or the percentages, so it raised the 2026 budget with an amendment to the percentages and considered that this time it would be “Approved by a large majority.” because “They won the election.”