the Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradoraffirmed this Wednesday that between 20 and 30 large national and foreign companies owe the treasury about 100,000 million pesos.
The president announced in his morning press conference that the head of the Tax Administration Service (SAT), Racheland the director of Large Taxpayers, Antonio Martínez, lThey delivered a list of companies that are behind in their paymentsAlthough he did not reveal their names.
Now there are about 20 or 30 that have not paid, that owe, they are national and also foreign companies. So let’s do a review. In some cases it is because audits had not been completed, they have not been notified,” López Obrador declared at the National Palace.
The president recalled that since he took office in December 2018 he has sought to eradicate tax evasionciting a constitutional reform in 2020 that prohibits the forgiveness of taxes.
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Tax collection from large taxpayers increased by 20.7% annually in real terms in the first half of 2022, as reported by Buenrostro last July, during the 25th anniversary of the SAT.
Large taxpayers paid 1 trillion 134.255 million pesos in the first half of 2022, the head of the SAT indicated then, while in the same period of 2018 the figure was 752.6 billion pesos.
Mandatory to pay, even after AMLO’s six-year term
López Obrador warned that companies will have to pay even after he leaves the presidency, in 2024.
There are those who do not accept the new reality and think that with legal arguments, protections, and other tricks they will be able to prevent them from paying. No, I advise them to pay because, in addition, this tax fraud is criminal in nature, it already falls into the criminal sphere, ”he commented.
In a table, the president showed a 3.2% increase in total government revenue so far this year, with a 14.8% increase in income tax (ISR), which amounts to a total of almost 1.75 billion dollars. pesos.
But it also revealed that tax revenues have fallen 0.3% in the first nine months of the year due to an 80.8% reduction in the special tax on production and services (IEPS) due to the tax subsidy that the Government has granted to fuels since March. past.
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