translated from Spanish: Congress of Michoacán passes Tax Law with form to the initial opinion Congress of Michoacán approves Tax Law

Morelia, Michoacán.- The unplanned legislative bloc between the parliamentary fractions of the PAN, Morena and a part of the PT, did not give the necessary votes for the only new tax presented by the Executive Branch, to be removed from the Law of Finance, so by majority the LXXIV Legislature generally approved and in particular the initial opinion.

The debate

The pre-vote debate was generated by the deputies of Morena, Fermín Bernabé Bahena, Cristina Portillo Ayala and Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, who among the batons of attendees of the Extraordinary Session, remembered the taxes that were repealed from the law in Commissions United and repeated lyre against any tax.

Arturo Hernández Vázquez, chairman of the Finance and Public Debt Commission, tried to put a stop to them, emphasizing that the cedular and ecological taxes were mostly eliminated, and accused them of “looks good” media.

Already in the vote, the PAN Parliamentary Group reserved articles 32 to 39, the same as half of the Labour Party, so both sides agreed that only one representative of both should go up to the rostrum for grounds.

The oscar Escobar Ledesma was in charge of mentioning the reasons why they sought that the tax for environmental remediation for mineral extraction, among which he mentioned the lack of solid bases to measure the extraction, the absence of a regulatory framework with respect to the banks of materials, that the collection will not be used to compensate for environmental damage, and which directly affects the pockets of entrepreneurs and ejidatarios, so he suggested reforming the state’s environmental laws and not just creating taxes to collect.

Article 32 was also reserved by Ernesto Núñez Aguilar of the PVEM, who proposed to allocate the proceeds to a state fund that ensures environmental remediation.

Both reservations were rejected by vote, the first with 18 votes against and 15 in favour, the second with 31 votes against and only 2 in favour.

Faced with the rejection of the reservations in Article 32, the PAN and PT chose to withdraw the remaining reserved items (33-39).

One by one, the articles were voted on and all reserves discarded, so the Treasury Act was passed as initially presented in the opinion, including the environmental remediation tax for mineral extraction.

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