Carlos Tevez during a match at Estadio Alberto J. Armando in Buenos Aires on April 3.
Photographer: Marcelo Endelli / Getty Images
Photographer: Marcelo Endelli / Getty Images
Argentine football legend Carlos Tevez has filed a court order to prevent a new wealth tax from being paid, which is the latest example of the problem of making millionaires comply with the levy.
Tevez filed the formal complaint with the Argentine National Court of Appeal on Thursday, according to a registration of the case in the docket. Tevez’s lawyer, Juan Carlos Nicolini, was contacted by Bloomberg News and confirmed the order that increases the unconstitutionality of the wealth tax.
Nicolini said the complaint was confidential and he did not want to give further details. He estimates that there are already more than 100 submissions before the judiciary by individuals to obtain tax exemption.
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The Argentine government has made a one-time, so-called extraordinary contribution, which is expected to pay about 13,000 affluent citizens. The tax applies to Argentines with more than $ 2.2 million in assets, and the levy varies depending on the amount and where the assets are held. The deadline to pay was Friday.
Lawmakers estimated last year that the tax would bring in about 300 billion pesos ($ 3.2 billion), but up to March data showed that the tax authorities received only 6.1 billion pesos, or about 2% of the target, from the wealth levy. Dozens of wealthy Argentines dispute the tax in court, calling it ‘confiscating’.
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Tevez plays for Argentina’s most famous team, Boca Juniors, where he won 10 cups. He was born in Fuerte Apache, a slum in the Buenos Aires metro area. In 2019, Netflix released the series “El Apache”, a historical fiction report about his life.
He started playing as a child in the lower ranks of Boca Juniors, but his scoring ability catapulted him to Brazil and then European football, where he played for almost 10 years and earned a fortune. Tevez is the best Argentine footballer next to Lionel Messi, having won 29 international and national titles at teams such as Manchester United, Manchester City and Juventus.