There's no legal way of leaving the country with your savings. You're unable to exchange your savings legally as the only concept that the AFIP (local IRS) accepts for exchanging is exports. I know, I checked every possible avenue. The people you talk to's attitude ranges from apologetic, passing through not-give-a-shit reaching abuse.
Luckily for me, I didn't have any big savings, not really, but if you have a house/car/anything (IE, have roots) and you sell it you're royally fucked. Even if you exchange in the black market you cannot leave the country with more than USD 10K per person, and if you do and get caught in either Argentina or destination country, it'll get confiscated in its entirety. And once you've arrived to a country with USD 10K, you have to exchange it to the local currency (let's say EUR). But now you have EUR 7380 in cash that no bank will touch with a 10 foot pole because almost no other country in the world disallows it's citizens from doing bank transfers, so that money is suspected of being laundered.
On top of all this, you can use your credit card outside of the country, with a 35% tax to every purchase, with a monthly top, so if you're left with pesos, as I was, you can start chipping away at the meager pesos savings bit by bit. But then you have to keep in mind the incredible inflation rate that the peso has[1][2] of over 28% for 2014[3](3.38% in a month!).
"you cannot leave the country with more than USD 10K per person, and if you do and get caught in either Argentina or destination country, it'll get confiscated in its entirety"
I don't know if it's different because I was coming from a different country but I arrived once in the US with more than $10k, I just declared it and filled out a form.
You're right, and it seems like in both the US[1] and Europe[2] you can enter with more than that, all you have to do is declare it.
In Argentina you cannot enter or leave with more than USD 10K[3], declared or undeclared except through a financial or banking institution, which in effect cannot move money abroad.
"Los pasajeros y tripulantes mayores de 21 años podrán retirar del país, metales preciosos, billetes y monedas extranjeras por montos superiores a u$s 10.000 o su equivalente en otras monedas, sólo a través de ENTIDADES FINANCIERAS Y CAMBIARIAS, con las respectivas autorizaciones."
There's no legal way of leaving the country with your savings. You're unable to exchange your savings legally as the only concept that the AFIP (local IRS) accepts for exchanging is exports. I know, I checked every possible avenue. The people you talk to's attitude ranges from apologetic, passing through not-give-a-shit reaching abuse.
Luckily for me, I didn't have any big savings, not really, but if you have a house/car/anything (IE, have roots) and you sell it you're royally fucked. Even if you exchange in the black market you cannot leave the country with more than USD 10K per person, and if you do and get caught in either Argentina or destination country, it'll get confiscated in its entirety. And once you've arrived to a country with USD 10K, you have to exchange it to the local currency (let's say EUR). But now you have EUR 7380 in cash that no bank will touch with a 10 foot pole because almost no other country in the world disallows it's citizens from doing bank transfers, so that money is suspected of being laundered.
On top of all this, you can use your credit card outside of the country, with a 35% tax to every purchase, with a monthly top, so if you're left with pesos, as I was, you can start chipping away at the meager pesos savings bit by bit. But then you have to keep in mind the incredible inflation rate that the peso has[1][2] of over 28% for 2014[3](3.38% in a month!).
[1]: http://imgur.com/va1o1C1
[2]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AuNh4LTzbqXMdFJ...
[3]: http://www.infobae.com/2014/01/14/1537019-la-inflacion-congr...