The Government advances with the ARCA restructuring plan with a strong cost cut

The Government advances with the restructuring plan that carries forward in the Customs Collection and Control Agency (ARCA). In that sense, this Tuesday he ordered a new organizational arrangement which reaches up to and including the level of General Subdirectorate and reduced salary of hierarchical positions by 80%.

Javier Miley signed the decree that established that those who hold the position of Executive Director of the organization that replaced the AFIP will receive a salary comparable to that of a minister of the national government, while the general directors, both in the General Tax Directorate (DGI) and in the General Directorate of Customs (DGA), will receive a similar amount to the Secretaries of State. In this way, the three main authorities of the organization stop receiving the percentage of the Hierarchy Account.

In parallel, with the objective of save this year about 121 billion pesos that historically were used to pay the salaries of officials, the Executive Director of ARCA decided reduce the ARCA budget from 0.65% to 0.60% destined for the ranking account.

Another important point of the measure has to do with the decrease in ARCA’s employee base. According to what was stated, since the beginning of the new management of the organization, not only were all new personnel joining the organization suspended but, in addition, there were 1,572 dismissals that will not be replaced.

In that direction, it was warned that the entity that replaced AFIP is working to have a total plant of 3,200 employeesafter between 2019 and 2023, under Alberto Fernández’s management, 3,155 people joined.

In a publication made on social network X, the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adornimade this set of decisions official and noted: “The privileges and unbridled spending in ARCA are ending.”

This series of measures, which They aim to improve the functioning of the State to achieve quality public management, reduce the oversizing of the state structure, reduce the deficit, and balance public accounts, are framed in decree 953/2024 published in the Official Gazette on October 25.

That document, which dissolved the AFIP to create ARCA, ordered that the Executive Branch must form the new structure before January 22.

That is why now the ARCA authorities will promote a readjustment of the lower structure whose reduction is estimated at almost 45%, dropping from the current 67 addresses to approximately 38.

In parallel to this measure, the Government also made official the creation of a early withdrawal system for him ARCA permanent plant staff. It did so through decree 3/2025, which bears the signature of the head of that organization, Juan Alberto Pazo.

Article 3 of the regulations proposes “to arbitrate the pertinent budgetary measures in order to comply with the provisions of this operative act, establishing a maximum limit of 1,500 available vacancies.”

In one of the annexes, the requirements that the person must meet to voluntarily benefit from this measure are specified: being equal to or greater than 58 years of age as of December 31, 2024, or reaching said age during the validity period. of this Early Retirement System; and prove the minimum provision of services in ARCA (former AFIP) established as a requirement in article 24 of the CCT Award No. 15/91 (to Resolution ST No. 925/10) and article 179 of the CCT No. 56/92 – Award No. 16/92 “E” (to Resolution ST No. 924/10)”.