OFFICIAL STATEMENT
City of Buenos Aires, October 21, 2024.- The Office of the President informs that, within the framework of the reduction of the State and the elimination of inefficient structures, it will proceed to dissolve the Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP).

The Agency for Collection and Customs Control (ARCA) will be created, an organization with a simpler, more efficient, less costly and less bureaucratic structure. This measure will reduce the number of senior authorities by 45% and the lower levels by 31%, which represents an elimination of 34% of the current structure, generating an annual saving of 6.4 billion pesos.

Likewise, 3,155 agents who entered the AFIP irregularly during the last Kirchner government will be dismissed, which is equivalent to 15% of the current staff. This step is essential to dismantle the unnecessary bureaucracy that has hindered the economic and commercial freedom of Argentines.

On the other hand, as the start of the management of the new ARCA, the Hierarchy Account for senior officials will be eliminated, reducing the salary of the head of the entity, from approximately 32 million to the amount currently received by a Minister of the Nation, around 4 million. The same will occur with the salaries of the Directors of the General Tax Directorate (DGI) and the General Customs Directorate (DGA), who currently receive 17 million and will receive a salary comparable to that of a Secretary of the Nation.

The creation of ARCA has as its objective the reduction of the State, the elimination of unnecessary positions, the professionalization of the entity, the destruction of corrupt circuits, and the improvement in the efficiency of collection and customs control, eliminating the privileges of the past and optimizing public management.

The ARCA management will be in charge of Florencia Misrahi, who will lead this process together with Andrés Gerardo Vázquez, who will assume the position of head of the DGI, and José Andrés Velis, the new head of the DGA. Vázquez, a graduate in Business Administration and a Public Accountant, has more than 30 years of experience in the General Tax Directorate. For his part, Velis has extensive experience in the General Customs Directorate and has been responsible for the development of key computer systems such as the Malvina system.

Office of the President of the Argentine Republic