Comments on: Taxes, Technology & Innovation in Argentina

By: Esteban

Esteban — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:05:22 +0000

I think it’s arguable, the lack of access to the latest gadgets doesn’t necessarily stall the technological progress of a country.
For example, you can do excellent programming with a computer 2 years old, it may be better if you have a newer one, but it doesn’t make that huge a difference.
I also want to point that there hasn’t been a tax increase for desktop and laptop computers.
I agree that taxes on electronics are a little high (about 35% – 40%), but we must take into account these goods are imports, if we let their price drop everyone will buy crappy gadgets and our commercial balance will suffer and we’ll go back to a default.
The big investments in technology that make a country advance are expensive (like for example gearing a school with a huge state-of-the-art computer center) with or without taxes.
Right now Argentina is paying all its debts, the economy is growing, and we get a lot of people coming to live here from those countries you compare us with (Colombia for example) who agree that the quality of life is better here.
Despite all this, I agree maybe some technological goods that are used as tools for innovating should have little or no tax, computers for example. But I think some luxury or useless goods should have a high tax.

By: Silvia

Silvia — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:19:39 +0000

I dont know who wrote this article, but I m totally disagree .One of the best qualities that Argentines have over the wide world , is the abi;lity of Creating and Innovating ,
Ask about Nucear Energy how and who developed here , without the huge and expenses resources that deveopped countries has. Ask about Medicne , and talking about Technoogy Computers they are not the signal of development , sorry to say , how do you use them and other talents are the key of it , How many more Bill Cinton or Steve Jobs could be in America (USA) , it is very hard to deny the lack of information how is the education system there , is everyone allowed to get the suitable education , opportunities , universities careers .We can show many genious minds with or without resources , we could always prove our potential abilities that come from our ancestors , european inmigration , these are our roots , and i im not agree with the higher taxes and i m not agree with many things of the goovermente , there is a lot to do , but please , be more objective ..and i prefer the Ceo of Intel , ask to Intel Argentina what they develop here please , they do allot in training and
everyone can access , I can mention many examples , ask to IBM programs , etc .

Sorry but

By: ptolemy

ptolemy — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:23:02 +0000

Excuse me, typos before,…I can only assume that this government’s tax policies are designed to keep it’s people forever in the dark, oppressed and ignorant of the rest of the world. You can NOT expect domestic products when the only tools you have to work with are sticks and stones.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:43:20 +0000

This is something I’ve been feeling for a long time, you just put it into words. It’s crazy how expensive tech products are, I don’t get it. Really. It makes me furious when I go to the States and see the difference. I think this retards our progress, makes it so we can’t take advantage of our talent. It’s like you said, Argentines are very smart and capable, very cultivated work force. The politicians needs to understand this. We’re never going to take advantage of our human capital if we can’t afford to buy, use and build on the things that you Americans take for granted. It’s crazy. But what are you going to do when you have politicians who think things aren’t expensive enough, who think we need to raise taxes even more to make them even more expensive!!!! What are you going to do????