It is ironic, not to say cynical, that major tax evaders talk about the shortcomings in health services in their media outlets when the lack of resources is due, above all, to the multiple forms of tax evasion they engage in, writes ISSSTE Director Martí Batres.
The companies, who profit heavily from the exploitation of Mexican labour, seek to maintain significant fiscal advantages at the expense of the Mexican treasury after years of evading export taxes.
Woes are multiplying for the ultra-right winger Ricardo Salinas Pliego, who won’t have much to celebrate despite being a guest at US President Trump’s recent Christmas dinner.
One pending matter is the last tax case involving ultra-right winger Ricardo Salinas Pliego’s Grupo Salinas, involving 621.9 million pesos.
For decades, a neoliberal-captured Supreme Court allowed corporations to evade and defer massive tax debts to the Mexican state. Recent rulings suggest that era may be over.
The ruling comes a week after the Court definitively ratified seven other tax debts totaling more than 48 billion against ultra-right winger Ricardo Salinas Pliego’s conglomerate.
The largest tax lawsuit was unanimously resolved against the group owned by ultra-right winger Ricardo Salinas Pliego, which also controls millions of workers’ pensions.
The companies, owned by notorious tax scofflaw Ricardo Salinas Pliego, requested a postponement of the rulings while the Tax Service “adjusts” debts. The court also dismissed motions to recuse Justices Batres, Esquivel, & Ortiz.
According to a study by Morena in the Chamber of Deputies, the main challenge facing authorities is not so much identifying fraudulent companies, but rather prosecuting them.
Sheinbaum’s proposed tax reset is not a tax reform that improves the progressivity of the tax system, but rather represents a port of departure for the spending vessel that will sail the seas of present and future social demand.