translated from Spanish: Large companies owe 50 thousand mdp to the SAT; AMLO asks them to pay

15 large companies owe the Tax Administration System (SAT) 50 billion pesos in fines and surcharges, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported.
So he will ask the President of the Business Coordinating Council (CCE) Carlos Salazar Lomelí to help us by talking to the owners of the big companies who owe money to the public finances.
At his morning conference on Wednesday, the representative reiterated that his government will not defer or waive the payment of taxes to companies, on the contrary, they will be asked to pay their debits.
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He added that he will send the list of large debtor taxpayers to Salazar Lomelín because if companies pay their debit or at least part, the government will have more resources to grant more credit to one million small family businesses.
“If I’m talking about us handing over loans to a million small family businesses, if we charged the 50 thousand mdp we could deliver 3 million (credits). If you reach agreements and pay 25 thousand mdp because it is already 2 million credits”.
The representative assured that “there is no rupture” with the ECA holder, and the part of the sector it represents.
“There is no rupture, we simply do not agree with the rescue plan that they propose because we believe that we must first attend to those most in need, those below and that we should not indebted to the country,” López Obrador said.
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He added that the entrepreneurs asked him to increase the government’s debt to kick out an economic bailout program, to which he said, he refused.
“We can do it differently. We ask that we be allowed to implement our economic recovery program.”
The president’s plan includes providing more social aid and credits to small businesses, lowering salaries to officials, maintaining his administration’s large infrastructure projects.
The members of the ECA and the Association of Banks of Mexico (ABM) criticized the plan, as they consider that it “falls short” in the dimension of the crisis that will lead to the suspension of economic activities by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I understand that Carlos Salazar is in his role in defending his guild, but hopefully and he also understands that I am here to represent the interests of the people of Mexico, of all, but to seek to give preference to the humble people,” he concluded.
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Original source in Spanish