The Second Collegiate Court in Administrative Matters of the First Circuit determined that Grupo Elektra, a company owned by Ricardo Salinas Pliego, must liquidate a fiscal debt of approximately 2 billion pesos for the omission in the payment of the Income Tax (ISR) corresponding to the year 2010.
The magistrates unanimously resolved that the company must pay this amount to solve the tax credit generated and thus any problem is finished with the Tax Administration Service (SAT).
At the last moment, Grupo Elektra wanted to stop the resolution of this litigation, as it has done in most of its tax trials, by presenting writings in order to question the impartiality of the judges
The allegations were discarded by the members of the Collegiate Court, who considered that the company only intended to delay the judgment of the tax trial.
This is the second setback that the employer receives in less than a week, because on June 19 the tenth collegiate court in administrative matters sentenced him to pay another fiscal debt for almost 2 billion pesos for not paying the income tax for the year of 2012.
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The companies of Grupo Salinas, owned by Ricardo Salinas Pliego, owe more than 63 billion pesos to the Tax Administration Service (SAT), according to the dependency itself.
On March 20, 2020, during the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, at the morning conference, the holder of the SAT explained that the figure is composed of more than 53 billion pesos corresponding to tax trials – as the audits executed to four companies by the SAT between 2008 and 2018 – and more than 10 billion pesos for fiscal credits.
The Government then stated that more than 90 percent of the total debt is related to the Fiscal Consolidation figure, used between 1982 and 2013 to grant taxpayers the possibility of compensating profits and losses of a single group and having a single result and, in addition, allowed to defer or postpone the payment of the Income Tax (ISR), but did not condon or cancel fiscal responsibilities.
That same day, Ricardo Salinas Pliego said that his company, Salinas Group, has not stopped paying taxes, contrary to what the then President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said.
“The accusations or statements from my friend the president, in the sense that Grupo Salinas has stopped paying a very high amount of taxes, it is not true, we pay very much, I personally pay obscene amounts of taxes; nothing more false, Grupo Salinas pays and pays a lot,” said that day in a video broadcast on his social networks.
Salinas Pliego also accused the Tax Administration Service (SAT) of extorting entrepreneurs so, he said, he will only pay what is correct.
“They arrive, they put a giant account and they tell you ‘If you pay me half I forgive you’, and we do not yield to extortion; so we do not accept any discount, we will not pay more than what is correct and for any reason we will pay twice or even triple as this administration intends,” he said on that occasion.
On March 21, 2024, the Office of the Presidency of the Republic went up to the Group Salinas File, which shows the legal route of how they have tried to collect taxes to the owner of TV Azteca.
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