What basic food and beverage products do Argentinians pay the most taxes on

Gustavo Carreño, a research professor at the UADE Foundation, and Gonzalo García Donadío, who is a lawyer and accountant, have just published a study to determine the tax burden on the price of certain mass consumer products in the Argentine market. Vegetables and cereals, meat, fish, fruits and their derivatives, oils, dairy products and various alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages entered the list under study. To make the calculation, different taxes were taken into account, such as VAT, income tax, contributions and contributions to social security, internal taxes, gross income, municipal taxes and export duties. What is the product that has the most tax pressure on the retail price? Finally, Argentines are not as crazy as it seems, because the products with the highest tax incidence on the final sale price are alcoholic beverages such as whiskey, tequila, cognac or other spirits with more than 30 ° of alcohol. In these cases, the incidence of taxes exceeds 65% in what we pay ...