After departure from Juan Pazo des Customs Collection and Inspection Authority (ARCA) and the resulting appointment of Andres Vasquez Instead, they appointed Mariano Mengochea as the new owner of the General Directorate of Taxes (DGI)who had been left headless.
The appointment was established by publishing the decree 891/2025, in the official gazette. The regulations set the start of his work for Mengochea on “December 18, 2025”.
The officer held the position Deputy Director General for Metropolitan Tax Operationssince October last year, when the then head of the DGI appointed him through a provision formalized in the Official Gazette. As part of his duties, Mengochea was responsible for supporting the Director General in the execution and coordination of actions related to the application, collection and audit of internal taxes, which were of particular importance within the ARCA structure.
His duties included monitoring social security resources, always following the instructions of the Executive Director in the area of municipal fiscal operations. In this context, part of his duties included this coordinate and monitor the tasks in view internal taxes, social security resources and other incomeit would be up to the various authorities of the authority within the assigned jurisdiction to carry it out.
Mengochea He developed an extensive career in customs The silverwhere he served for years Technical Analyst. He participated as a teacher Chair of Finance and Tax Law in the University of Lomas de Zamora. As part of the General Tax DirectorateIn 2009 he was a supervisor and in 2013 he was promoted to head of the inspection department.
This change occurs after the naming of Andres Edgardo Vazquez as Director of ARCA following the departure of Juan Alberto Pazowho submitted his resignation to the Minister of Economic Affairs on Monday, Luis Caputo. The choice of Vázquez responded to the need for a technical and experienced profile with the aim of deepening the controls and inspections in the tax structure.
This is an official with a solid international education, which he consolidated through training in renowned organizations in the USA. He attended the International Seminar on Money Laundering United States Department of the Treasury in 1997 and two years later he completed the Airport Interdiction Program and the Basic Chemical Precursor Research Course organized by the Ministry of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Is Bachelor of Administration And auditordes Argentine University of Economics (UADE)and took part in specialist seminars on the control and prevention of financial crime.
With more than three decades of experience, Vázquez performed and was part of strategic functions in government organizations related to financial monitoring and financial information Federal Finance Administration (AFIP) and then from units created after the reform of the tax system. Last year, he took over and replaced the General Directorate of Taxation, one of the main operational branches overseeing national taxes and managing the country’s largest taxpayers Gabriel Ramirez. In addition, he is close to the presidential advisor Santiago Caputo.
Regarding Pazo’s departure, the Ministry of Economy said he expressed his desire to return to the private sector, although he will continue to contribute to the development of policies aimed at private activities and economic growth.
His management took over as successor on December 11, 2024 Florence Mizrahi. After all these months, his work was recognized for his participation in administrative simplification reforms, such as the introduction of the simple VAT, the simplified profit regime and the promotion of the tax innocence law.
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