Argentine president gambles on tech taxes, faces tough crowd
A new proposal from Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has the country’s tech community scratching their heads. Her pitch: to effectively double taxes on technology products that are not manufactured or assembled in the province of Tierra del Fuego, including notebooks, cell phones and digital cameras.
Oddly, few of these devices are actually made there. In fact, Argentina imports the vast majority of them. So the tax would affect a majority of Argentines, not to… Continue Reading