July 7, 2008 3:43PM # It’s Not Easy Being an Argentine Farmer By [Juan Carlos Hidalgo](https://www.cato.org/people/juan-carlos-hidalgo) --- SHARE Tax Freedom Day — the day we stop working for the government and start working for ourselves — took place this year on April 23rd [according](http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxfreedomday/) to the Tax Foundation. Some people rightly complain about working for the government almost 4 full months, but if you were an Argentine farmer, you’d still have to wait more than a month and a half for such a splendid day. A recent [survey](http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1028089) of *La Nación*, an Argentine daily, found out that the average farmer in that country needs to work 240 days a year to pay all his/​her taxes. In some cases this figure goes up to 300 days a year. Based on these numbers, Tax Freedom Day will be “celebrated” in most Argentine farms on August 27th. A [mate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beverage)) will be in order. ##### Related Tags [General](https://www.cato.org/general), [Tax and Budget Policy](https://www.cato.org/tax-budget-policy) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).