Recent content by Dexter

You will be taxed on your "bienes personales" on a sliding scale from 0.5% to 1.75% Annually. https://www.afip.gob.ar/gananciasYBienes/bienes-personales/conceptos-basicos/que-es.asp

To purchase goods and get mail? BsAs is more third world. To walk the street? SF. No question, and it's relatively obvious I would think. Can you even have lunch on the sidewalk nowadays in SF? Or put any merchandise on the sidewalk? Societal collapse hasn't happened in BsAs, probably due to...

according to a new law you now have to pay benefits and do it all en blanco.

you have to employ her en blanco and pay benefits. i just increased my maid's pay to 20 pesos/hour but she comes only once a week.

You are mixing up two completely unrelated issues. Most international bond buyers and rate agencies don't know much about Argentine politics. They know the yield of the bond and they know the rating of the bond. If the government threatens to default on its debts, the price and rating of the...

If there’s been no overstay then you’re rolling the dice with the odds heavily in your favor. The risk is that a particularly nasty officer starts doing the math and decides you are a de facto resident abusing the tourist mechanism. Even then, the fact that you can show that you are working on...

Missing a lot of relevant context. What happened on departure after having passed 90 days? Was the appropriate fine duly paid?

https://baexpats.org/threads/benefits-of-argentine-citizenship-vs-permanent-residency.29477/

My temporary residence of one year expires in mid-December. Not sure if I care (or can for that matter) renew it. If I travel home for the holidays and and try to re-enter in January (for 90 days) would I have issues? Since I will entering under a different category my guess is 'no' (last time I...

I agree that it was starting to improve, however I also have to say that unfortunately Argentina isn’t a country that can afford long wait times for said improvement. Argentines are inpatient, have very little memory, and vote however their same-day economic panorama looks like, and let’s face...

As this is an ex pat forum, and just being as candid as I can, aside from the frustrations of getting dollars, not being able to obtain certain imported items (which now albeit being able to get are still way too expensive so I don’t even bother), and of course, just feeling a sense of disorder...

Stores that accept foreign credit cards pay a 10% service charge. It costs them more to process a credit card transaction. I have a debit card with a credit union, and use it on rare occasions for purchases over 1,000 pesos.

No, she dismissed his advances. The relationship soured later on for unrelated reasons. They swapped numbers so she could reach out to him in case of technical issues, but it seems he had ulterior motives. My ex was completely transparent with me about the messages he sent her

There's a mix of positive and negative aspects here. To grasp the downsides, it's essential to understand the concept of being "vivo," a lifestyle ideal for many, but not all, residents. A few anecdotes illustrate this reality: Items left momentarily unattended are at risk of disappearing...

I was thinking that this physical transformation perhaps had something to do with immigration from other Latin American countries and their cultures but I'm not sure. I remember Argentinean women many years ago used to look almost anorexic.