The Government is concerned about collection and informality

A good example of the numbers that excite the Executive came with the trade balance for May, which had a surplus of US$3,504 milliona nominal record without precedent in the historical series measured by Indec. Not bad.

That number was reached due to a 34% increase in exports and a 7% drop in imports. In the first five months of the year, the accumulated positive balance is around US$11.8 billionso it has already exceeded the surplus of all 2025which had been US$ 11,320 million.

“In May 2026, exports reached a historical record of US$ 9,537 million and imports were US$6,033 million“, said Indec in its report. May was the month number 30 with trade balance surpluses consecutively. On the other hand, the drop in imports is linked to the brakes of the industry. The number worriesbut in the new productive board designed by the Government, the industrial collapse seems logical. The focus is on other productive sectors, such as energy, mining and agriculture.

What is beginning to worry and is not logical for the Government It is informality. The numbers are scary and, according to official sources, they exceed in some areas 50%. And informality is not only made up of employees who do not receive their salary in cash. There are companies that they do not deposit social charges in a timely manner that retain workers.

Judicial sources indicate that there are already criminal complaints from the Customs Collection and Control Agency (ARCA) against banks by irregularities in the retention they make to their own workers. At ARCA they prefer not to talk about the subject.

The banks were denounced in April of this year and are the New Bank of Entre Ríosin the Federal Prosecutor’s Office of Paraná; he Santa Fe Bankin the Santa Fe Prosecutor’s Unit for Simple Crimes; he Galicia Bank and the Santander Bankin Prosecutor’s Office 11 of the Economic Criminal Court 1. All of them are accused of not having made the payment of Social Security contributions and Social Work contributions in a timely manner after the expiration of the deadline. thirty calendar days of expiration.

However, Santander says that it is “up to date with all its tax, pension and regulatory obligations and is not aware of nor has it been notified of any complaint for alleged non-compliance with the social charges of its employees.” It also maintains that it operates “under strict compliance and control standards, in accordance with current regulations, and maintains a permanent relationship of collaboration with the competent authorities.”

What does the Law say? Establishes a period of thirty calendar days from the expiration of the period for payment of the withheld social security tax/resource; then, the crime of misappropriation of social security resources is consumed by the total or partial omission of the deposit of withheld contributions when the legally established period for making that deposit has concluded.

In this way, according to the complaint, the contributing company He withheld contributions from his employeessince he did not pay the corresponding amount upon expiration of the legal period.

ARCA does not talk about the complaints filed in court but does talk about the operations it carried out against different food chains and they go in the same direction: the evasion.

“Based on the analysis of systemically detected inconsistencies, a personnel survey operation was carried out on April 16 of this year in an important pizzeria chain with a presence in the Capital and Greater Buenos Aires,” stated an ARCA source.

According to the source, 46 stores and 463 workers from the pizza chain were revealed. Kentucky. As a result, the 49% of them were found to have irregularities, among which the lack of registration, differences in dates of entry and declared remunerations stand out. Also, they identified 222 undeclared workers.

In addition to supervising the situation of employees in the businesses, the operations also controlled the PosNet devices used to collect transactions.

At another pizza chain (Ugi’s) 95 workers were surveyed, of which 94% was found with irregularities, according to ARCA.

Finally, 17 locations of the gastronomic chain were inspected The Pink Panera. “78% of the workers had some irregularitywith 103 undeclared employees and 181 unregistered employees,” indicated the collection agency.

The operatives They will continue and in different areas. The numbers are worrying because the collection is far from leaving a Government calm that decided to lower withholdings and stop collecting some taxes Will it be enough to recover some of the lost ground by charging fines to the banks and relieving the black employees of pizzerias?