Collection of taxes from Salinas Pliego “is a technical issue”

President Sheinbaum ruled out that this is a persecution against Salinas Pliego or his companies, but rather an objective fact, which are the debts that the magnate has been carrying since 2008 regarding non-payment of taxes; will respect the decision of the SCJN, he said.

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Mexico City, October 28 (However).– The President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo stated this morning that the case of tax payment of Ricardo Salinas Pliegoone of the richest businessmen in the country and who accumulates millionaire tax debtsis related to a “technical theme” and not with one personal. He ruled out that it is persecution against himas he has accused magnate.

“What we propose is very serious and has technical support. (…) On the issue of paying taxes, let all of Mexico know that it is not subjective, that there is no issue of affecting a businessman, a business group,” Sheinbaum said this Tuesday in his morning conference.

Furthermore, the president added that the Executive will abide by what the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) says “and will follow everything that has to be done within the legal framework.” “It is something serious. It is not something that has to do with a personal matter, or a matter against some group, or that we are politicizing an issue. It is simply a definition that has been in place since 2008 of a payment that must be made to the treasury for the benefit of the people of Mexico,” he stated.

Sheinbaum insisted that the technical issue of this debt has to do with “tax audits that were carried out and that give a very significant amount of taxes, and that for a long time this business group has been protecting itself and is about to be resolved by the Supreme Court of Justice.”

“The calculation that is being made is very serious, beyond the comments in this regard that we can make. You have to pay. You have to pay and the Court is going to make its decision”; the President highlighted.

Finally, Sheinbaum reiterated that the issue is now up to the Court: “Just pay. Take chocolate and pay what you owe. Take chocolate and pay what you owe.”