Sunday, October 18, 2026 Group Gazette The group business desk
Meetings & Events

Prieto opens FEHGRA's XXIII tax and labour colloquium

FEHGRA held its XXIII Coloquio Tributario Laboral Hotelero Gastronomico on 29 September 2026 at the AHRCC in Buenos Aires. President Daniel Prieto asked the day to produce measures operators can apply.

FEHGRA held its XXIII Coloquio Tributario Laboral Hotelero Gastronomico on Tuesday 29 September 2026. The federation ran the day at the AHRCC headquarters in Buenos Aires and published its account of it on 2 October 2026.

The account leads on the opening remarks of the federation's president, Daniel Prieto.

Prieto's opening remarks

"There is a very strong base of work, and to that unity that already existed we look to add more content," Prieto said.

"We want concrete measures to come out of this that can be put into practice," he said. "That is our commitment since we took office."

Prieto spoke beside the vice president, Ignacio Bordon, and the treasurer, Juan Chiban.

The tax and labour agenda

The colloquium ran under the theme Hoteleria y Gastronomia: el desafio de sostener la actividad, el empleo y la competitividad.

Seven sessions ran on the day. Juan Manuel Alvarez Echague spoke on local fiscal pressure, and Marcelo Santalucia moderated. Melisa Zolabarrieta and Alexis Billone shared the block on the Fondo de Asistencia Laboral, and Humberto Plastina moderated.

Claudia Ortiz spoke on the reform in Brazil, and Carolina Sacilotto moderated. Veronica Sanchez spoke on labour modernisation, its new contractual forms and flexibility, and Edmundo Day moderated.

Ignacio Bordon and Milagros Gismondi spoke on competitiveness and costs. Alejandro Almarza spoke on Decreto 814, and Juan Chiban moderated. Sonia Becherman spoke on fiscal innocence, and Sergio Freidzon moderated.

The published subjects run across municipal rates, the labour fund's tax treatment, Brazil's reform, new contractual forms, regional wage gaps, Decreto 814 employer charges and fiscal innocence.

The programme and the account

FEHGRA published the programme on 24 September 2026 and the account of the day afterwards. The announcement frames the colloquium as a gathering of business owners, sector leaders and tax specialists to debate strategic tools for the sector's sustainability.

The announcement groups the agenda under five blocks: Presion Fiscal Local, Costos y Alivio Patronal, Modernizacion y Fondo Laboral, Perspectiva Regional and Relacion Fisco-Contribuyente. The account runs seven sessions.

The close and the participants

German Krivocapich, the Administrador Gubernamental de Ingresos Publicos, spoke at the close.

FEHGRA describes the participants as leaders of its Departamento de Politica Tributaria, professionals and business owners from across the country. The federation publishes no attendance figure and no session times, room names or seat counts.

The venue and the federation

The venue is the AHRCC, the Asociacion de Hoteles, Restaurantes, Confiterias y Cafes de Capital Federal. FEHGRA lists the association at Tucuman 1610 in the Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, with the telephone (011) 4372-7275.

FEHGRA states on its own site that its associations group more than 84,000 hotel and gastronomy establishments across the country. The federation lists its own office at Larrea 1250 in the Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires.

FEHGRA says the edition reaffirms its commitment to public policies that ease the fiscal burden, counter informality and support the sustainable development of hotels and gastronomy across Argentina.

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