Argentine Economy Minister linked to property tax evasion
Municipal records obtained by the Buenos Aires daily Tiempo Argentino show that Argentine Economy Minister Nicolás Dujovne listed his upscale home as a vacant lot for tax purposes.
The contemporary, 283 m² (3,045 ft²) house, in the affluent Belgrano section of Buenos Aires, was built for Dujovne in 2004 - but according to municipal tax records remained listed as a vacant lot until March 15 of this year.
Similar homes in Belgrano are selling for over $300 a square foot, making Dujovne's property likely worth around $1 million - over 40 times its assessed tax value of $22,000 as a “vacant lot.”
This is not the first tax-related controversy facing the media-savvy, 51 year-old conservative economist.
He became one of a number of Mauricio Macri administration officials to be listed in a tax “whitewash” scandal when news emerged this April that he had obtained amnesty in 2016 for $1.3 million in undeclared income kept offshore.
Dujovne was earlier photographed during the 2014 World Cup, in Brazil, holding an Argentine flag spray-painted with the words: “Up Yours, Revenue Agency.”
His appointment by Macri in January 2017 was widely seen as a signal to U.S. President Donald Trump, whose son Eric hired Dujovne's father, Berardo, in 2012 to design Trump Tower Punta del Este, a luxury condominium building in neighboring Uruguay.
This latest scandal has exacerbated the political firestorm over Macri's June 8 agreement with the IMF for a $50 billion stand-by credit line - a bailout which the IMF has tied to draconian budget cuts, including an 81% cut in public works spending.
Protesters, who gathered outside his home earlier today, improvised a small soup kitchen.
“Since you can't afford your property taxes,” one sign read, “we brought you breakfast.”
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A nightmare on Mendoza Street? Dujovne's Buenos Aires home, until recently listed as an empty lot for municipal tax purposes.
Dujovne hosted IMF director Christine Lagarde here shortly before requesting a $50 billion bailout which the IMF has tied to deep budget cuts.
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The material is loaded with corruption from the first sentence to "This latest scandal." Good grief!
Macri's administration is doing a mass attack on the population continually, hitting them everywhere. And now, with the enormous loan Macri cadged from the IMF, he intends to rip 81% out of what tiny budget has been left to attend to public service. Macri is just daring anyone desperate enough to protest him. He clearly is ready to initiate major violence against dissent at the drop of a hat, and doesn't mind flaunting it. He has openly, as already known, publicly expressed support for the dirty dictatorship behind the murder of 30,000 Argentinian people, and the kidnapping and torture of so very many more, not to mention the terroristic "death flights" dropping leftists and suspected leftists into the river, and into the Atlantic Ocean from military airplanes.
He knows very clearly the public has many survivors of that time, and the offspring and grandchildren of the victims of government terrorism against any opposition have been informed and bear the psychological, and emotional scars, trauma as well. He knows they have that background of awareness of a nation terrorized almost into a state of paralysis by his beloved military dictatorship, and maybe he's counting on that national memory as an asset to keep them in line while he completes his new dictatorship.
Dujovne gets amnesty, not prosecution when he evades declaring offshore investments, he cheats "bigly"
on his real estate investments, then gets sweet deals from Macri when he "comes clean" about it, also
with no prosecution, and sentencing, as anyone unaffiliated with the right-wing would get. Smooth sailing
for the dirty oligarchs, as usual.
Even his appointment as the Economy Minister was a signal to the Trumps that it was safe to use Argentina as a new area of exploitation, a gift from Macri.
How much evil can one world absorb before being destroyed?
