Andrés Manuel López Obrador met this morning with businessman Carlos Slim and one of the topics that both characters discussed during their informal meeting was the payment of millionaire taxes that the companies of the Mexican magnate have made to the treasury.
López Obrador acknowledged in a tweet that América Móvil paid 28,000 million pesos in taxes to the Ministry of Finance for the sale of a subsidiary in the United States on December 16.
In September 2020, the US company Verizon Communications acquired Tracfone Wireless, a subsidiary of América Móvil in the United States, for $ 6.25 billion in cash plus Verizon common shares.
Since the beginning of the current federal administration, the treasury has focused on improving the review, determination and collection of tax debts to large taxpayers, which together with the transfer of financial emergency funds, has amortized the fall in tax revenues and oil tankers.
The payment of tax debts from large companies set a record in the collection figures of the Tax Administration Service (SAT) during 2020.
On average, each large taxpayer audited by the tax authority last year paid 104.3 million pesos (mp) for debts with the treasury, this is the highest average amount that is registered and is 2.2 times higher than in 2019.
