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Argentina offers new tax amnesty

By Kirsten Hastings, 18 May 16

In a bid to capture undeclared funds and assets from Argentines at home and overseas, Argentina’s national government has confirmed that it will offer a new tax amnesty this year.

In a bid to capture undeclared funds and assets from Argentines at home and overseas, Argentina's national government has confirmed that it will offer a new tax amnesty this year.

Finance minister Alfonso Prat-Gay confirmed last week that “the government will carry out a tax amnesty that will last until the end of the year, allowing those who don’t have their accounts in order to regularise their situation by January 2017”.

According to the Buenos Aires Herald, Prat-Gay attributed the upcoming tax amnesty to the fact that most countries will automatically share tax and asset information from next year.

He warned that those who don’t take advantage of the amnesty “won’t have anywhere to hide their assets” in 2017.

Details about the plan are sparse, but Prat-Gay said that those participating in the latest amnesty will be hit with very high taxes.

It is estimated that Argentines hold up to $400bn (£276.5bn, €353.3bn) in assets offshore, with the government hoping to net around $60bn through the scheme.

Liechtenstein disclosure failure

While many will view this as the ‘last chance saloon’ for Argentines hoping to avoid an increasingly inevitable jail sentence, the underperformance of the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility (LDF) proves that there are many who won’t jump at the opportunity to regularise their affairs.

LDF was an agreement between Liechtenstein and HM Revenue & Customs that offered UK taxpayers with undeclared offshore assets the opportunity to anonymously regularise their tax affairs without facing criminal prosecution.

Launched in 2009, the offer window closed at the end of 2015, with HMRC raising about a third of what it had hoped to raise.

Bond sale

The tax amnesty is the latest move by the Argentine government to re-establish itself in the international markets.

Argentina raised around $16.5bn in a sovereign bond sale in April, having been frozen out of the global markets for more than 15 years by a group of US hedge fund managers, following its $100bn default in 2001.

However, despite the success of the oversubscribed debt offering, which attracted bids of more than $65bn, rampant inflation, job losses, and domestic strife could spell trouble for president Mauricio Macri. 

Tags: Argentina | Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility

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