Buenos Aires Confirms It Plans to Allow Citizens to Pay Taxes With Cryptocurrency
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- 27 Apr 2022
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Buenos Aires Government to Introduce Cryptocurrency Tax Payments
The government of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, is planning to allow its citizens to pay some taxes with cryptocurrencies. According to local media, the announcement was made by Horacio Rodriguez Larreta — head of the Buenos Aires government — on a recent Zoom call. This initiative is part of a digitization push the city is planning to execute to broaden the access of citizens to documents and government services.
This plan, called “Buenos Aires+,” seeks to “simplify and streamline the link with citizens and the city,” according to Larreta. On the importance of blockchain for this digitization push (that seeks to automate 70% of formalities during its first year of implementation), Diego Fernández, secretary of Innovation and Digital Transformation, stated:
"I believe that blockchain technology will give the government the possibility to make all its acts more transparent and encourage the participation of citizens in a deeper way."
This proposal is similar to the one presented by the government of Rio de Janeiro in March, which also announced it will accept cryptocurrency as payment for some kinds of taxes starting next year.
Digital Identification Project
One of the key projects that the city is looking to complete is the implementation of a digital ID system, that would let citizens simplify document requests and payments made to the city. The system also strives to be interoperable, meaning that several organizations of the government might interact with it in different ways. This could also ostensibly help to streamline time-consuming errands amongst different government offices, giving the citizen the opportunity of managing all their tasks in the same system. Read More…
