SAT: Large taxpayers owe six times more to the Treasury

Multinationals and other large taxpayers said goodbye to the last six-year term with tax debts that exceeded one trillion pesos for the first time.indicate records from the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP).

Pending payments with the Tax Administration Service (SAT) by corporate and transnational that operate in the country, increased from 186 billion pesos to one trillion 88 billion between December 2018 and September of this year. That is, they multiplied by six in the administration of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)

The big taxpayers concentrated 39% of the total tax debtswhose balance of two trillion 812 billion pesos last September also marked a historical maximum and was four times greater than that of December 2018.

For the SAT, The large taxpayers are those companies that invoice more than 1,800 million pesos per year and the authority has 14,988 registered in the registry.which means just 0.02% of the total active taxpayers with tax obligations, but they contribute 51% of the tax collection.

Manufacturing industry, the one that owes the most

At the beginning of the so-called Fourth Transformation (Q4), the debts of the taxpayers of the sector amounted to a total of 73 billion pesos, but The figure reached 422 billion in September of this year.

The natural and legal persons that operate in The manufacturing industry tops the list of tax debtsconcentrating 15% of the total, recorded by the SHCP. Secondly, professional, scientific and technical services appear.whose debts with the SAT the last administration dismissed at 377 billion pesos or 13% of the total.

In third place are taxpayers dedicated to wholesale tradefor an amount of 294 billion pesos, which is equivalent to 10% of the tax credits.

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Why don’t they pay taxes?

Prosecutors They pointed out that the increase in debts to the SAT It is due to several reasons, since many of them have been dragging this slope and time is running against them.with the effect of updates and surcharges based on accumulated inflation.

They are old debts that continue to grow, while the process of some means of defense that they filed such as amparo continues.

Others do not pay due to lack of liquidity, because they have not yet recovered from the pandemic or due to ignorance as the notification never reaches them. The law prohibit forgive tax credits from 2020.

“The longer it takes to pay the debt, the cost goes up,” said Virginia Ríos, a member of the Technical Tax Investigation Commission of the College of Public Accountants of Mexico.

He mentioned that it must be taken into account that in the SAT portfolio there are tax credits that are in dispute and others have not been attended to due to various circumstances.

Therefore, he considered that It is a good opportunity now that the authority is promoting payment facilities to debtors to catch up, because it increases with updates if they do not adhere to those plans.s.

He indicated that this possibility is not new, since it is contained in the Federal Income Law and the Tax Code. It is for all taxpayers, but the most beneficiaries will be individuals.

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