“The proposal responds to two issues: civic culture and avoiding identity theft, I want to specify that it does not imply any obligation or any sanction,” said Buenrostro in his appearance for analysis of the 2022 Economic Package.
The deputies must vote before October 20 on the fiscal miscellany that includes changes to the laws of the IEPS, VAT, ISR, Customs, and the Fiscal Code of the Federation to apply as of 2022.
Raquel Buenrostro explained that it is a preventive measure against billing companies, dedicated to selling tax receipts, simulating operations for the provision of services.
“Suddenly we find that a young man of 18-19 years old has a company that has a turnover of 1,000 million pesos (mdp) a year, he has several sports cars, when the young man is located we realize that it is identity theft, because he lives in province, even indigenous, that in the best of cases, in the worst is a home in the middle of the road, in the middle of nowhere, “explained the head of the SAT.
Another use they give to the data is to register them in payroll to create shell companies. The SAT has found cases in which the same person works in companies located in different states at the same time.
“That is not possible, it is a mistake,” added the official.
The other foundation is that there is a change in the tax culture, raising awareness that it is a duty to contribute to guarantee services and public goods, explained the head of the SAT.
Pandora Papers
Raquel Buenrostro, and the tax attorney, Carlos Romero Aranda, explained that since the beginning of the new federal administration, work has been done so that all persons obliged to pay taxes comply with it, in addition to reinforcing actions to avoid tax evasion through of operations in the financier.
The head of the SAT specified that together with the prosecutor’s office, it has been possible that characters published in the Pandora Papers lists have already been brought up to date, and others are in pursuit of complying with their tax obligations.
He asserted that as part of these actions last year, a person, involved in the investigation, paid the treasury 5.8 billion pesos last year, the highest amount paid by a natural person.