Argentina courts shelve hundreds of tax-evasion cases after “Fiscal Innocence” law takes effect
News from Latin America and Mercosur [Unofficial]
February 24, 2026
Argentina’s federal courts have begun closing hundreds of tax-evasion in bulk following the rollout of the so-called Fiscal Innocence framework, a reform that sharply raised the monetary thresholds required for tax evasion to qualify as a criminal offense and that is being applied retroactively under the “more benign criminal law” principle.
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