The Government made official the COUNTRY tax reduction through a presidential decree: the tax that impacts imports went from 17.5% to 7.5% and is expected to have an impact on prices, not only on products that arrive from abroad but also on those produced national that use imported materials or parts. Both conditions reach the car market.
And although the scope of this measure on prices to the general public is still unknown, since the ruling party estimates that this transfer will not be immediate, a car brand published its September price list with reductions that can reach up to two million pesos.
This is Toyota, which in its official values this month Price drops of between 2 and 4 percent are seendepending on the origin of the model, whether it is domestically produced or imported.
This price drop also involves the 0 km car, whose official list price positions it as one of the cheapest on the entire market: the Yaris model, in its XS version, went from 21,205,000 pesos to 20,357,000.
At the moment, the Japanese brand is the only one that showed reductions in its official prices. Prior to the officialization of the tax reduction, most companies anticipated that the transfer was not going to be total or immediate. consulted by Clarionthe rest of the manufacturers did not have new sales values.
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The Japanese brand is the one that sells and manufactures the most cars in Argentina. Its Hilux truck, produced in Zárate, has been leading the latest patent rankings, including the last one in August. At the moment holds 22.1% of the market; That is to say, almost every four new models that are patented, one comes from Toyota.
The company, from this leadership position, has shown in recent years a discretionary management of pricing decisions. In situations of increases, scope of new taxes or even changes in the exchange rate, the transfers to prices were not immediate.
In this case, the answer is the opposite and applies changes automatically. Specifically, the list prices of the National production models (Hilux, SW4 and Hiace) have a 2% discountwhile those who arrive imported from Brazil (Yaris, Corolla and Corolla Cross) lowered their prices by 4%.
In this way, a Hilux pickup double cabin DX equipment level went from 36,199,000 to 35,475,000 pesos. A more equipped variant, such as the SRV 4×4 with automatic transmission, dropped from 58,020,000 to 56,357,000 pesos.
The values of the 4×4 SW4 also went down: the SRX version went from 71,126,000 to 69,703,000 pesos, while the GR-Sport variant went from 75,420,000 to 73,916,000 pesos. While Hiace, the utility vehicle that is also assembled in Zárate, moved its prices from 47,011,000 to 46,071,000 pesos for the van variant and from 56,835,000 to 55,698,000 for the passenger option (Commuter).
In the case of models imported from Brazil the drop is even greater. An XLS version with a four-door body and automatic transmission was from 25,995,000 to 24,955,000. He Corolla The most accessible (XLI CVT) went from 28,165,000 to 27,038,000 pesos and the most expensive (HEV SEG hybrid), from 35,809,000 to 34,377,000 pesos.
The Corolla Cross options had the same proportion of discounts, with prices that were from 36,529,000 to 35,068,000 pesos, for the XLI 2.0 CVT version, and from 42,126,000 to 40,441,000 pesos, for a SEG HEV 1.8 ( hybrid).
