Argentina: government adds conditions to salary subsidy arrangements

Argentina’s government has decided to place restrictions on the Assistance for Work and Production (ATP) program, one of the main instruments helping companies and workers during the Covid-19 lockdown and pandemic (c.f. article No. 11864). Profiling of businesses from April’s first round of ATP applications has enabled the identification of those benefiting from the program’s measures and these freshly added conditions (ban of dividends paiement or to  invest in USD dollars via the stock market etc..) are intended to prevent capital flight at a time when Argentina is structurally short of USD are intended to counter the effects of windfall gains for large company and high salary earner beneficiaries.

Through . Published on 27 May 2020 à 12h12 - Update on 21 July 2020 à 14h43

Monthly salaries in excess of ARS 250,000 gross (€3,333) will be excluded from the ATP program, which covers up to 50% of net salaries for workers in companies that have had to stop or severely restrict their operations because of the Covid-19 lockdown.…

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