🇦🇷 Buenos Aires Goes Crypto — Tax Payments Now Accepted in Digital Assets

Buenos Aires has implemented “BA Cripto,” which enables citizens and companies to pay municipal taxes and administrative costs using cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. The scheme, launched on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, comprises municipal levies including ABL (property tax), Patentes (car tax), and Ingresos Brutos (turnover tax) as well as non-tax processes like driver's licenses and traffic penalties, payable using a city QR flow

City Hall went beyond a payments toggle. Four measures were announced: adding crypto-linked activities to the city's economic-activity nomenclator to simplify filings; excluding virtual-asset service providers (PSAVs) from certain bank-collection regimes under the turnover tax; shifting crypto trading's taxable base from gross transaction value to net spread; and enabling QR crypto payments for taxes and administrative services.

Mayor Jorge Macri portrayed the plan as institutional transformation to encourage investment and simplify compliance. “The goal is for the City to be a world leader in crypto,” he added. “We already have the human capital, and now we are building the tools by reducing bureaucracy to make taxpayer compliance easier and to support new companies setting up here.” The Slow Kale in Colegiales, which takes bitcoin, hosted the comments.

Macri said, “These measures ensure the crypto world sees that the City is increasingly friendly. Our state must be contemporary, flexible, efficient, and clever in the digital economy. Talent should be able to develop, invent, and lead without constraints.”

The background is rising use. According to official figures mentioned at launch, 10,000 Buenos Aires residents receive bitcoin or PayPal revenue from overseas, and PIX rail usage is growing. Argentina claims “more than 10 million” crypto accounts—22% of Latin America's total—justify digital asset-friendly policies and public-service rails.

#Write2Earn #CryptoRally #MarketPullback #PowellWatch $BTC $ETH $XRP