The Court will rule in favor of judges appointed from 2017 to pay income tax

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Justice will begin with the timetable set two weeks agoanas pairfail on relevant issues before the end of the year. The first question that the highest court will discuss concerns the validity or otherwise of a precautionary measure preventing the appointment of judges paid from 1 January 2017, as provided by Law 27 346.. The measure was ordered by the judge Esteban Furnari as part of an action initiated by the Association of Magistrates.

As you may have known Infobae, Ricardo Lorenzetti, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Horacio Rosatti will vote in favor of new judges who have already served in the judiciary and who were appointed in 2017 to pay the benefits. The votes of Elena Highton and Carlos Rosenkrantz is not defined yet.

Thus, the Court will rule on the precautionary measure ordered by the federal litigation administrative judge Esteban Furnari and confirmed by the chamber of that jurisdiction, but will not rule on the merits. However, in one of the recitals of the decision of the highest court that will be heard this afternoon, ministers Lorenzetti, Maqueda and Rosatti will indicate that without pronouncing on the merits of the case but not revoking the injunction, the judges and the mission they fulfill and in the course of their duties, they must be the first to obey what the laws say. Until now, Highton and Rosenkrantz are working on how to include in their votes a text against the recital of Lorenzetti, Maqueda and Rosatti..

Moreover, on Monday, the Chief of Staff's answer arrived at the Court, Marcos Peña, at the request of modification of the elements to grant a salary increase to employees of the judiciary. The expected increase is 10% from 1 October and 10% from 1 December.

In this note, Peña indicated that "the modification of budget items, as requested, strongly affects the resources of the Treasury"For this reason, the manager asked that the salary increase expected from December this year be granted in 2019.

Finally, the Minister in charge of coordination pointed out that, in order not to delay the 10% increase, budget items will be changed, but as expected at a meeting between the Minister of Finance, Nicolás Dujovneand the administrative authorities of the Court. What they suspect on the fourth floor of the courthouse is that the increase in the judges' budget ends with the resources of the counter-cyclical fund created under the presidency of Ricardo Lorenzetti.

The reaction of the magistrates' guild to Peña's reaction was immediate. So the owner of the union, Julio Piumatohe said that "if the chief of staff wants to disregard the wage agreement, the courts will remain in place until the end of the year". The Court must remain firm in the face of this outrage.