The Plenary of the Chamber of Deputies approved by majority in general and in particular the non-reserved articles the opinion with a draft decree by which various provisions of the Special Tax Law on Production and Services are reformed and added. (IEPS) for 2026.
With this, Morena and allies endorsed with 351 votes the increase in the tax that applies to soft drinks with and without calories, cigarettes, casinos and video games.
For the first time, an IEPS will be applied to oral serums that do not comply with the formulas established by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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PRI-PAN and Movimiento Ciudadano added 129 votes against considering that the increases threaten the family economy and because of the prevailing doubts that the measure will discourage the consumption of these products and services and that they will be channeled to the care of diseases caused by their consumption.
After five hours the ruling was finally approved, which began the discussion in particular with the presentation of 220 registered reservations.
The Morena deputy, Daniel Murguía Lardizábal, presented on behalf of the Finance and Public Credit Commission, the opinion for the IEPS law for 2026.
The basis for the changes, he explained, is that the consumption of soft drinks increases diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.
The reform, he assured, seeks to address these health problems, through taxes on tobacco products, games and raffles, and video games.
He emphasized that in the case of oral serums they will not cause IEPS, only for those that contain anhydrous glucose and other substances.
The Citizen Movement (MC) deputy, Patricia Flores Elizondo, spoke in the positions, who accused that there will be little transparency in the destination of the resources collected in this way.
It is assumed, he said, that the modifications to the IEPS will serve to care for health with resources that could be up to 270 billion pesos.
He warned that they will surely go to current spending or to the operation of social programs considered opaque.
He said that the federal government does not have any strategy and proposes labeling so that they go to the health sector or for the construction of hospitals.
“If they really want to achieve tax justice, they should support the economy of Mexican families,” he established.
For the Labor Party (PT), José Luis Téllez Marín, supported the initiative because its purpose is to prevent diseases and make a more efficient tax system.
At the same time, he stated, the State’s capacity to make tax collection transparent is strengthened.
“There is no social justice without public health,” he pondered.
After the positions, there were two rounds of general discussion of the opinion by the different parliamentary groups represented in San Lázaro.
The discussion lasted for more than five hours because legislators broke the agreement between parliamentary groups not to ask questions to the speakers during the debate to speed up the procedure.
On the contrary, Eva María Vázquez of the PAN rebutted that the argument that the increases to the IEPS are due to a crusade for health is false.
“The big lie is that no peso is going to go to medicine,” he predicted, asking to review the figures, since they reveal that they are being allocated to advertising spending while consumption of soft drinks and cigarettes continues to rise.
“They are not interested in health, but rather that the box rings,” he accused.
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