After being appointed by the government Andres Vazquez as Head of the customs collection and control authority (ARCA), the libertarian government named this Wednesday its successor in the General Tax Directorate (DGI), which is dependent on the organization.
By Decree 891/2025 published in the Official Gazette Mariano Mengochea He was appointed head of the DGI. Previously, the new owner served as deputy general manager for the department’s municipal tax operations.
The decree signed by the President Javier Milei and the Minister of Economic Affairs, Luis Caputostates: “As of December 18, 2025, the auditor Mariano Mengochea is appointed Director General of the General Directorate of Taxes of the Customs Collection and Control Agency, an autonomous entity operating within the sphere of influence of the Ministry of Economy. Communicate, publish, send to the National Directorate of the Official Register and archive.”
Mengochea has always been one Vázquez’s extremely trustworthy official and even worked with him on the Southern metropolitan areathe tax territory where Kirchnerism protected the companies of Lázaro Báez and Cristóbal López.
In 2009, the current head of the DGI was a superior in this direction, which he obtained through Vázquez himself, and in 2013 he was promoted to head of the inspection department, later accompanying his boss on his way through the customs of La Plata.
Accountant by professionMengochea spent years in the customs area of the port of La Plata. He worked there as a “technical affairs analyst” until Vázquez took over as head of the DGI at the end of October Appointed Deputy Director General for Metropolitan Operations.
Earlier this week, ARCA’s then-executive director said, Juan Pazo submitted his resignation from office and the government named Vázquez as his successor. Both movements were made official this Tuesday with the publication of the Decree 890/2025 in the official gazette.
The standard accepted that Resignation of Pazo from December 18, 2025 and formalized in the same law Vázquez’s appointment as the new managing director of the debt collection agency, which acts as an autonomous unit under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. As explained in the official text, Pazo He informed Caputo of his decision to resign.. It was also noted that the former official will return to work in the private sector and “will continue to cooperate unconditionally with the Minister“.
Vázquez, who has more than 35 years of experience in the former AFIP, Is It is being investigated for alleged illicit enrichment, money laundering and tax evasionamong other possible crimes, for undeclared foreign accounts and for paying taxes on three condominiums in Miami that he did not declare in Argentina.
In December 2024, two months after Vázquez was appointed head of the DGI, THE NATION released an investigation documenting that ARCA’s new owner purchased through foreign companies three properties in the United States for more than $2 million which he never stated in his affidavits before the Anti-Corruption Authority (OA).
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