Silver.- The Discretionary transfers Who sent National Government that Province of Buenos Aires This year is the cause of a new controversy, for the likely benefit of the government Axel Kitsilo In other jurisdictions. According to official data, the district received in the first quarter 38,569 million According to the Buenos Aires Treasury and the Ministry of Finance, the nation peso in this concept.

But the official data contradicts the report published by the consulting company Aerrarium Where it is claimed that the province received 47,608 million Peso for national government transfers in the first quarter of the year. In the first quarter of the year, according to official data provided by the government, St. Non-automatic current transfers from the nation to the province totaled $ 78,626.

Is about Financial Aid Funds (29,259 million), Fonid (7,454 million), subsidies for hospitals (5,417 million), deficit of provincial funds (3,208 million), agricultural risk (1,000 million), education (1,200 million) plus 64 million not identified by a private consultant.

Government of Axel Kitsiloff He denied the information spread by a private consultant. “The global data we have on discretionary transfers is different,” the statement said. “It was 38,569 million,” he said without calculating that amount.

Instead the Aerarium published a detailed detail that was criticized by the government. “In the first quarter, total transfers from the nation to the provinces accumulated $ 1.11 billion (+ $ 0.4 billion per year), In nominal terms by 57% and in fixed currency by 3.4%, Maximum + 4.7% in PBA and minimum + 2.2% in Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego. “This is stated in a personal report written by economists related to the government of Mauricio Macri.

According to this private report, 24 jurisdictions received $ 91.405 million more than the total budget (+ 9%), a maximum of $ 20.054 million in the PBA, and an average of $ 3.102 million for the rest of the jurisdictions.

Detail

In the first three months of 2022, the Province of Buenos Aires (PBA) received $ 47.608 million (+ 103% annual) in discretionary transfers.. Within the framework of the Fiscal Strengthening Fund (FFF) created with the exception of CABA, $ 6,500 million and the additional treasury directly assisted the province with $ 9,152 million. As a result, PBA remittances increased from 34.4% to 40.7% in the first quarter of 2021 to 2022., Expresses a personal report to Aerarum.

“CABA, Santa Fe and Córdoba are 6.6%, 6.4% and 5.4%, respectively. “Juju (0.8%) and Chubut (0.6%) are on the opposite extreme,” the aerrarium crash said.

Always according to this private report, as of March, direct government assistance to municipalities was $ 16,591 million (+ 174% year-on-year), with 94% of this amount earmarked for capital expenditures. PBA municipalities received 52% Of the total transfers (+ $ 8,594 million), Cordoba, Entre Rოსos and Santa Fe districts are far behind, at 11%, 7% and 5%, respectively.

Historical imbalance

The Ministry of Treasury and Finance, led by Pablo Lopez, does not publish partial data on real-time transfers. At the opening of this year’s legislative sessions, Governor Axel Kitsiloff demanded more national complicity from President Alberto Fernandez to compensate for the historical imbalance.

In a 2022 budget announcement, the governor assured that the province has had it since 1983 38% less tax resources per capita than in other provinces.

“The problems of financing the province are fundamentally focused on the distribution of resources of national origin. This is one of the historical claims of the province of Buenos Aires. Our province has suffered the most in the secondary distribution of co-op resources Since the 1988 reform. 6.2 per cent of the vote was withdrawn from the 20,221 Act of 1973. “In this way, the province has reduced its share from 27% to less than 22%,” Kitziloff said in a statement to the legislature.

This budget indicated that the National Resources Guide would be in place this year 1,043,598 million Peso as current income. They stand out Conurbano Bonaerense Fund for $ 120,742 million, Fiscal Strengthening Fund $ 84.562 million; National Teacher Incentive Fund $ 21,717 million; As well as transfers for health expenses and school canteens, among others. In addition, 36,700 million transfers from the national government are envisaged in the form of capital transfers.

“The province is the region that receives the least resources per capita. The current system does not take into account its demographic weight or the fact that it concentrates the majority of the country’s disabled population. This does not contradict any of the sister provinces. But “We can not stop claiming greater co-participation.” Said Kitziloff.

These resources – which used to be 33 per cent, are now 22 per cent – and the population has grown from 26 per cent to 39 per cent of the total population. Kitsilof.

“It is true that the previous government achieved improvement. But the national government handed over energy and transport subsidies. So the initial increase was reduced to almost nothing. Today we have 110,000 million in front of this concept. The Fiscal Strengthening Fund was set up in September this year, which was a step in the right direction. But Not enough to solve the deficit Flows or structural. “We demand that the issue of co-financing be raised again for debate,” Kitsiloff told the previous legislature, to himself and others.