Milei wants to raise money in memory of Malvinas and Owen Crippa's patriotism

The hero of Malvinas is doing everything possible to repatriate the plane with which he defended our sovereignty in 1982, but Milei's government and ARCA intend to charge him taxes for bringing it back to the country.

15 de January de 2025 13:49

The Aermacchi MC339 (4-A-115) used in 1982 by then Lieutenant Crippa to attack HMS Argonaut.

Just a couple of days ago, we reported from Agenda Malvinas that a dream that started in April 2021, and which has the Malvinas hero Owen Crippa and the historic Aermacchi MC339 (4-A-115) as protagonists, was about to come true, because the plane - used in 1982 by the then Lieutenant Crippa to attack the HMS Argonaut in one of the greatest feats in the war for the recovery of the Malvina Islands - was about to arrive at the port of Montevideo.

But the dream of the hero of Malvinas, who was awarded the "Cross of Heroic Valor in Combat", came up against an unexpected obstacle: the tax-raising zeal of the Customs Collection and Control Agency (ARCA) , which, encouraged by the policy of fiscal surplus at any price, opened fire on the hopes of Crippa and of an entire people who await the return and reunion of the pilot with the ship that should never have left Argentina.

Let us remember that in 2005 the Navy and the National State decided to sell it, along with two other aircraft, as scrap metal to raise funds to buy spare parts for the Sea King helicopters that participated in the Antarctic campaign that year.

ARCA informed Crippa that “he will have to pay the corresponding import taxes” , as reported by the Esperancino portal.

“We have never had any support from the government, not even an offer. So, I want to go slowly, but if help comes, it will be welcome. If we do it with the people, if a million Argentines put in a few pesos, this will be done ,” he said on the program Creo, which is broadcast every morning on AIRE.

Crippa explained that ARCA has not yet exempted the taxes for bringing back the plane, which had been bought from the United States to sell as scrap metal: “Customs has already understood that this is not a plane, that these are parts of a plane that have to be assembled, that it is not going to fly. The AFIP (ARCA) has not yet told me that it is not going to charge me the import taxes, so when the plane is here I will see that, at least, they do not charge me the taxes.”

He added: “Up to this point, they told me that they would have to charge me and then return it to me. They told me this a few months ago, when I sent lawyers and accountants to prove that this is not a business, that we are six or seven people with time and even money, because the first loan we took out was not enough to pay everything.”

Let us remember that all the efforts that our hero of Malvinas, together with a group of citizens, have been making to repatriate the historic Aermacchi MC339 have the ultimate goal of building an interactive museum in Sunchales.

The project includes simulators, educational spaces and even accommodation for schools or delegations from all over the country. However, the lack of official support and the tax burden complicate the initiative .

Apparently, in Javier Milei 's government, there is no money for the heroes of Malvinas either; just as there is none for retirees, workers, soup kitchens, snack bars or universities.

We will closely follow what happens around this story because although Lieutenant Owen Crippa and his beloved Aermacchi MC339 managed to avoid the copious enemy fire of the English fleet in 1982, we will have to see how they manage to save themselves from the sharp and insensitive chainsaw of an Argentine president who admires Margaret Thatcher.

 

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