The SAT denied the rumors and ensured that it had not waived the tax on any taxpayer

The Tax Administration Service (SAT) He assured that he had partially or totally forgiven any taxpayer; on the contrary, “Promotes the regularization of taxpayers without judicialization”he explained in an official statement.

“By virtue of the principle of fiscal justice, in the current administration, the Tax Administration Service has not granted tax exemptions; on the contrary, stepped up its efforts to increase collection, even in the midst of the country’s health crisis“, Synthesized in a Newsletter published this Sunday February 14.

According to what has been supported by the SAT, in the current administration, a reform has been made to Article 28 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States (CPEUM) in which the monopolies and the tax privileges like the tax rebate. In addition, by presidential decree, decrees prior to the current government were repealed, which established various general provisions enacted under article 39, section I of the Federal Tax Code, by which tax debts were remitted. the ban on tax remission has been consolidated.

In this regard, the agency presented a compilation of forgiven figures from 2007 to 2018, which includes the administrations of Felipe Calderón, on behalf of the National Action Party (PAN); and Enrique Peña Nieto, for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and shows, according to these data, that in the first year of full government by the PRI, a record of condonations was broken, the SAT having ensured that 226,381 million pesos have been forgiven.

He also highlighted the work of secondary collection by inspection acts carried out compared to previous years, because in a table he explained that the resources 2019 and 2020, early years of the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, unusual figures have been collected compared to those of previous years.

This because in 2016, 2017 and 2018 a secondary collection was produced by 58.967 million, 70.908 million and 96.621 million pesos respectively; while in 2019 and 2020 accumulated 123,059 million and 216,254 million pesos, respectively.

“During the period 2016-2018, for every 100 pesos seized by inspection, 2.6 pesos in fines and surcharges were reduced; while in 2019-2020, only 1.3 pesos are reduced; the total amount is higher as inspection revenue has now more than doubled. The results for the period 2019-2020 are mainly due to the strategies implemented within the SAT, which focused on promoting the regularization of the tax situation of taxpayers, encouraging prompt payment by applying the benefits tax provisions provided for by the regulations, such as: i) deferred payment, ii) payment in installments, iii) reduction of surcharges, or iv) reduction of fines without the need for judicial review”, Specified the SAT in the statement.

Finally, it should be mentioned that this explanation comes to light 16 days after the publication of the media Eme Equis that the federal government of the current administration has forgiven some taxpayers millions of pesos, including the journalist Epigmenio Ibarra.

“A survey conducted by THERE ARE EQUIS, based on information from the open data portal SAT, reveals that if the government Enrique Peña Nieto pardoned tax fines of an average monthly 116 million 530 thousand pesos, the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador forgives 135 million 119 thousand pesos on average each monthThe portal said in one of its special surveys published on January 29 this year.

In this publication, the media break down different amounts that would have been forgiven to different companies, such Argos Televisión, Argos Producciones, Argos Soluciones Creativas and Argos Noticias, all belonging to the former war correspondent.

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