Sunday, July 27, 2025

Milei Government Ends Financial Surveillance to Ignite Dollarisation

Argentina has announced the sweeping rollback of financial reporting requirements in a bid to mobilize the billions of dollars Argentines hold outside the formal system.

President Javier Milei’s government has lifted “nearly all restrictions on money transfers and purchases,” declaring, “Your dollars. Your decision.”

Under the new rules, consumer transactions made via credit or debit cards will no longer be reported to Argentina’s tax authority, notaries and real‐estate agents are freed from reporting property sales and rentals, and banks are prohibited from demanding sworn income statements from clients or flagging transfers below 50 million pesos.

Instead of the prior “minutely track[ing]” of spending habits, taxpayers will face a simplified income‐tax regime that excludes personal consumption from ARCA’s oversight, effectively dismantling a suite of controls that had constrained both legal purchases and informal dollar hoarding.

Economy Minister Luis Caputo defended the measures as essential to “remonetise” the economy after previous stringent monetary policies left pesos in such short supply that inflation remained unchecked.

“When you have a healthy economy, it starts to want more money supply… This process of remonetisation can take place in dollars,” Caputo told reporters, acknowledging that the government needs to harness an estimated $271 billion in hidden dollar savings to boost liquidity.

Milei himself has long campaigned on a pledge to phase out the peso, advocating a gradual, market‐driven dollarisation that could, he asserts, “liberate us from thieving politicians for eternity.”

Analysts caution that the true impact of these reforms is difficult to quantify: local consultancy EcoGo warns it is “impossible” to predict how many dollars will surface from under the mattress.

Yet by allowing purchases of cars, homes and appliances in foreign currency without the previous reporting burden, the administration aims to rekindle domestic demand—just as official data showed a 5.6% year‐on‐year uptick in activity in March, followed by a 1.8% monthly contraction.


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