Days before the Chief of Staff, Manuel Adornipresent your sworn declaration of assets, your wife, Bettina Julieta Angelettirequested its adherence to the tax regularization regime known as “fiscal innocence.” He did so on May 31, according to records from the Customs Collection and Control Agency (ARCA) obtained by this means.
The official record – valid until July 9 – indicates that Angeletti (CUIT 27-29865407-0) requested to benefit from Law 27,799 for the 2025 fiscal period, a scheme that allows you to declare income and assets not previously externalized without criminal sanctions or tax recordsand will be a factor to take into account in the criminal investigation that the couple faces in the federal courts of Comodoro Py.
Law 27,799 works as a disclosure mechanism for taxpayers who operated in the gray economy and enables a Simplified Earnings Regime. Those who apply avoid criminal sanctions and criminal records, although they must regularize their tax returns and contributions. It is not an absolute tax forgiveness, but a normalization without punishment. In the case of Angeletti, joining the regime and its simultaneous formalization in value added taxes (VAT) and profits in October 2025 suggest that for years he would have operated without full tax registration.
The optional regime that Angeletti entered enables a simplified affidavit for Income Tax. This new format eliminates the obligation to justify asset variations (“amount consumed”)limiting itself exclusively to declaring income, expenses and deductions.
The regime in which Angeletti enrolled, it should be clarified, should not hinder the judicial investigation for alleged illicit enrichment that Adorni faces. The legislation sets limits on the tax benefits that the taxpayer can obtain – since it falls within this simplified regime – since the legislation refers exclusively to the tax aspect and does not include aspects related to money laundering.
The movement acquires, however, particular relevance due to the position it occupies Manuel Adorni. The Chief of Staff has been the central spokesperson for the Milei administration in matters of state transparency policies, control of public spending and the fight against corruption. As official spokesperson, he was in charge of emphasizing the message of austerity and probity. In this political context, the late tax regularization of your spouse generates an evident narrative tension between the speech and the official’s financial situation.
In that sense, the time lag between registration as self-employed and tax formalization is substantial. Angeletti is registered in activity as Self-employed worker since April 2017under the heading “professional, scientific and technical activities”, and worked for years as a monotributista.
However, Adorni’s wife did not formalize her VAT or income tax registration until October 2025almost eight years later, when Adorni was already a front-line public official, and both were already on the payroll of “Politically Exposed Persons” (PEP).
For judicial investigators, Angeletti’s decision to take advantage of the “tax innocence” regime opens new questions about his income and money movements, as reconstructed THE NATIONwhile they await the presentation of the sworn statement of the Chief of Staff.
According to ARCA, Angeletti It is categorized as T2 self-employed – with income from $20,001 annually – and submitted the application to join the tax innocence regime on May 31. But the record does not detail regularization amounts or specify which assets were declared under Law 27,799. This information remains under tax secrecy and is not publicly accessible.
What remains unknown is substantial. There is no public record on the magnitude of the regularized funds, the origin of those incomes, or the specific reasons why Angeletti decided open up your 2025 numbersan electoral year of high scrutiny on the assets of officials. It is also not known whether the adhesion responded to a voluntary review of conscience, recent tax advice, media or institutional pressure, or considerations of reputational risk due to his link with Adorni.
The Adorni family has been the subject of previous investigative coverage regarding their assets, real estate holdings and financial operations. When THE NATION consulted Adorni about his wife’s tax situation, he did not provide comment.
The assets and expenses that are known
The tax address declared by Angeletti to the ARCA appears at Avenida Assembly 1132, floor 2, department A, city of Buenos Aires. This is the apartment that the Adorni couple lived in before acquiring the apartment in Caballito, in 2025, for which they paid US$30,000 in cash and took an interest-free mortgage of US$200,000 on the part of the saleswomen, two retirees, according to the records of the case in which Adorni is being investigated for alleged illicit enrichment.
In that file, in the hands of prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita and judge Ariel Lijo, other purchases and expenses are analyzed. For case, US$120,000 for the house at the country Golf Club Indio Cua, in Exaltación de la Cruz, for which the couple paid US$20,000 in cash in 2024 and took out a mortgage for US$100,000, this time with a retired police officer and her daughter. The women declared that Adorni still owes them US$70,000 from that operation.
In turn, the contractor Matías Tabar declared that Adorni paid him US$245,000 in cash, and without invoice, for renovating Indio Cua’s house. Entering that country required other US$5000.
In addition, Justice investigates expenses for US$27,658 on trips abroad by the Adorni family (Aruba, Punta del Este and Spain), more US$6000 on a getaway to Bariloche and other expenses in local destinations.
To these operations was added a debt from Adorni for US$65,000 by a verbal agreement with Pablo Martín Feijoo, as stated in court by the real estate developer and son of one of the retirees who sold the Caballito apartment.
Finally, Adorni and Angeletti accumulated consumption and expenses of more than $85.1 million with credit cards, during 2025 alone, at an average of $7.1 million per month, at a time when the official’s gross salary amounted to $3.5 million per month and she was listed as a monotributista, as reconstructed THE NATION based on official data from the Central Bank (BCRA), reserved banking records and sources with access to financial information.
