The Treasury Department of Rosario estimated that the monthly purchases of gasoline and diesel carried out in the city generate around ARS 13,500 million from Impuesto a los Combustibles Líquidos. The tax is national, it is collected as a fixed amount per liter, and has an allocation linked to infrastructure and road maintenance through Sistema Vial Integrado.
The municipal calculation broke down about ARS 6,400 million corresponding to super gasoline, ARS 3,230 million to premium gasoline, ARS 2,176 million to grade three diesel and ARS 1,830 million to grade two diesel. In August of 2026, the reported fixed component was ARS 387.7 per liter of gasoline and ARS 294.1 per liter of diesel. The city has about one hundred authorized service stations.
The report converted the monthly collection into examples of urban investment. With an equivalent amount, 113.000 square meters of pothole repair could be carried out, 60 blocks could be paved, or 150.000 square meters of sidewalks could be built. It would also be enough to buy 43 buses, 3.900 containers, or 246 vans intended for control tasks.
Other comparisons included more than a month of urban hygiene, nine months of final waste disposal or public lighting, 70.000 LED lights, and two and a half years of traffic light system maintenance. These equivalents aim to show the scale of the contribution, but they are hypothetical scenarios: they do not constitute budgeted works or authorized purchases.
The estimate added a second scenario. If the tax returned to Rosario with a distribution similar to the revenue sharing of IVA, the direct income would be around ARS 1,300 million per month. That amount would allow, for example, six blocks of paving, 11.300 square meters of pothole repair, four buses, or 390 containers, according to the equivalences developed by the municipality.
The proposal contrasts the revenue generated in the city with the lack of a direct return for local infrastructure. However, the ARS 13,500 million represents an estimated contribution to the national fund and not an automatically enforceable debt by Rosario. Any change in the distribution requires a national regulatory or budgetary decision; municipal calculations do not themselves modify the current regime.
