Grupo Salinas informed that it will go to international instances to continue with the fight for the fiscal credit that it maintains with the Tax Administration Service (SAT), for an amount of 2,636 million pesos.
The foregoing is given in response to the resolution given this Wednesday by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) under direct protection presented by the company, and which was rejected by the Plenary of the Second Chamber.
“Grupo Salinas considers that justice has been denied,” the company declared in a statement, this following the majority of the ministers of the Second Chamber “refused to analyze the merits” of the amparo, with which the company considered their human right of access to justice and due defense is violated.
That is why he informed that they will resort to the corresponding international instances, and stressed that they have the full right to disagree with the authorities and to defend themselves once morest what “we consider a flagrant violation of our human rights.”
On Wednesday, the Second Chamber of the SCJN rejected the protection that Elektra promoted, with three votes in favor and two once morest. This resource is once morest the payment of 2,636 million pesos, plus the surcharges, fines and updates that are generated, for Income Tax (ISR) for the 2006 fiscal year.
“At Grupo Salinas we are convinced that both national and international legal instruments are a fundamental part of democracy; making use of them is a way not only to defend our companies and businesses, but also our collaborators and our conviction of full respect for the free market and the rule of law”, said Ricardo Salinas Pliego’s business group.
This is not the only case in which Elektra has gone to court. According to previous information that the company has disclosed, there are at least eight matters that it is litigating for tax credit issues, according to the information it published last year.
The SAT, today in charge of Raquel Buenrostro, has carried out a greater inspection of the category known as large taxpayers. This work even allowed that, in 2020, in the midst of a pandemic, tax revenues were maintained due to the payment made by different companies.
Among the companies that managed to reach an agreement with the collection agency are BBVA, América Móvil, Femsa, IBM, among others.
“Why hasn’t the collection dropped? Because debts that some companies had are being collected and this has allowed us to have income to strengthen public finances,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said in 2020, this following announcing the arrangements reached with some companies.
ana.martinez@eleconomista.mx
