With some delay and with certain benefits for early payments, The Buenos Aires government formalized the patrimonial tax payment schedule: that is, the obligations for those who are car owners or real estate.
According to a resolution published by the Collection Agency of the Province of Buenos Aires (ARBA) in the Official Gazette, the deadline to pay in term the first fee and the annual payment of the tax Real estate Urban and wasteland will be March 11. And for the tax Automotive The deadline extends until the 26th of the same month.
In the case of Rural real estate tax, the first share will overcome on April 8. Here the first novelty appears: Those who opt for the annual tax payment will have a 15% discount benefit.
The Buenos Aires will have more than two months of “grace” in the payment of taxes this year 2025. It is that the province has not approved Fiscal Law 2025, because there was no agreement in the Legislature, at the end of December. Nor could the budget be approved for this year.
Therefore, the Buenos Aires authorities had to adapt the tax rule that was sanctioned by 2024, based on an extension signed by Axel Kicillof in the first days of January.
Usually, in Buenos Aires the first “patent” quota is paid in January and in February the invoice of urban and wasteland real estate.
Buenos Aires has 1,892,157 car domains under 10 years old. The tax to the automotive tax is applied to these assets. 90% of that park would pay a maximum of 13.8% according to an official estimate. The others are cars that have a fiscal valuation exceeding $ 31 million and therefore another aliquot is applied. There is also a segment of patented vehicles before 2014 that pay tribute in the 135 municipalities (the collection is decentralized).
“We define a calendar that allows taxpayers to organize their payments and access important benefits. Those who opt for the annual payment, and are up to date, will get a 15%discount, “explained Arba’s executive director Cristian Girard.
On the tribute to houses and land, in Arba they said that the increase will be $ 2,000 per share for 70% of taxpayers. That tax is charged in five annual sections. This year there was an extra quota for properties valued at more than US $ 650,000, who was charged a sixth liquidation equivalent to the amount of the last issued.
That caused a reaction in some sectors that complained about a “100%increase” in the last quota. Of course, there were two joints, which were enabled by the tax law that the legislators voted in early 2024.
The full calendar is now available on the agency’s website (www.arba.gob.ar). And it was also reported that several options are available to pay in the deadlines planned by the body:
- DNI account: From the application of the Province Bank, accessing the “Arba” option and loading the data of the property or vehicle.
- Electronic ballot: For those who are subscribed, they can pay with QR code sent by email.
- Web of Arba: Payments with credit card, homebanking or ATMs, prior generation of the electronic payment code.
- Automatic Debit: Adhesion to debit, bank account or credit card, with a 5% discount for payment in term.
- For those who prefer to do it in person, payments may be made in enabled banks and Net Payments.
For difficulties to close internal agreements and with the opposition, Kicillof did not make the budget and the fiscal law approved in Parliament. Nor does it have another key financial instrument for the functioning of the State: The authorization to request debt.
At the end of December there were intense and extensive discussions in the legislature that ended without consensus. There were differences between the legislators of La Cámpora and the Massism (which have a majority in the official block) with the governor’s delegates. And there were also differences with the Banks of the UCR, the PRO and the LL that prevented the debate of the projects presented by Kicillof.
The 2025 budget set a calculation of expenses of $ 32,836,621 million, that is, a little more than 32 billion pesos. In the Ministry of Economy they explained that it was prepared “based on the macroeconomic parameters of the national budget project.”
Provides for a debt order for “$ 1,156,806” million, which represents “5% of the total budget 2025”.
In the line of taxes, the project that was not approved established a “moderate” increase for all 2025 of 28% in patrimonials. But that letter will no longer validate. The collection agency has other parameters to adjust taxes: it could apply the percentages of the law of 2024, which are higher.