Hi, Tim,
On 05/27/2013 09:19 AM, Tim Chown wrote:
The move appears to be related to new, restrictive
regulations the Argentine government has imposed on currency exchanges.'
According to the Telegraph, 'The new regulations required anyone wanting
to change Argentine pesos into another currency to submit an online
request for permission to AFIP, the Argentine equivalent of HM Revenue &
Customs. ..."
This isn't likely to change soon.
Going into the country isn't the problem, more importantly it seems that
if you don't spend all your pesos in Argentina, you can't change them
back to your own currency:
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Travel-g294266-s601/Argentina:Banks.And.Money.html
(see last paragraph)
I'm currently off-line, and hance cannot read the article right now. But
I should say that the last time that I checked, it was possible to
change the excess pesos back to your original currency, provided you
kept the original receipt that proved that those excess pesos correspond
to money you had in your original currency. But I could double-check if
interested.
That said, man shops accept dollars and euros (not pounds, though :-( ).
So I guess that for the most part you could just have some small amount
of money in pesos (mostly to pay cabs, I'd say), and move around the
city using your credit card (or, if needed, USD or Euros)
Cheers,
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Fernando Gont
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