President Javier Milei has fired the head of Argentina’s tax bureau after she authorised modifications to the agency’s “streamers and influencers” regime.
Florencia Mizrahi was dismissed from her post on Saturday, with local media outlets reporting that the order to expel the director of the Agencia de Recaudación y Control Aduanero (ARCA) came directly from Milei.
Local news agencies said the decision was down to “differences in the direction of the organism,” but the government briefed that the decision to change tax rules for "streamers and influencers" was partly responsible.
In a decree published Monday, confirming her dismissal, the government said Misrahi had "departed from one of the central axes of this government, which is the simplification of the tax system."
ARCA was recently given a new name, after the national government decided to rebrand the Administracion Federal De Ingresos Publicos (AFIP) tax bureau.
Mizrahi will be replaced by Juan Pazo, who until today held a position in the Economy Ministry headed by Luis Caputo.
“The President of the Nation took the decision to dismiss the head of ARCA and two officials for the modification of the streamers and influencers regime,” said Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni in a post on the X social network, referring to a resolution published earlier this week that would have the targeted groups begin paying tax on their economic activities.
“Juan Pazo will take over as the new head of ARCA and Pablo Quirno will assume the role of Secretary of International Economic Relations of the Argentine Foreign Ministry,” he added.
Mizrahi was appointed to her post in December 2023, but has failed to last a year in office of the agency, which manages tax and customs regimes.
AFIP was renamed to ARCA in October earlier this year, with Milei administration officials announcing it would see a 34-percent reduction in staffing levels.
It was created to “improve tax and customs control through a more agile operation, in line with the policies of reorganisation and administrative transparency promoted by the executive branch,” according to the government decree that created the agency.
– TIMES/NA
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