The export tax announced by Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri this week, which formed the centrepiece of an emergency fiscal austerity package, will help to narrow the budget deficit. But the fact that more ambitious structural fiscal reforms on the spending side weren’t unveiled when they were needed most suggests that President Macri is struggling for political capital.
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