Grupo Salinas reported that it will appeal to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) after the federal government’s refusal to validate an alleged agreement in the last administration on the payment of its tax debts.
“We continue and will continue to exercise our legitimate right to defend ourselves, even resorting to international bodies such as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,” he said in a statement.
The position of Ricardo Salinas Pliego’s consortium comes after this morning President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected from the National Palace any possibility of an agreement or meeting with the SAT to resolve the group’s tax debt:
“They want to pay? Pay. There is no need for a negotiation table, for agreements in the dark, no technical table, there were many in the past. If they want to pay, let them pay, right? because he says, ‘we want to pay’, then pay, nothing prevents them from paying, nothing, absolutely nothing.”
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Félix Arturo Medina Padilla, Undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration, and former Fiscal Attorney of the Federation, assured along with the president that it was false that in the last administration an agreement was reached with Grupo Salinas in relation to its debts, as the company had previously mentioned.
Grisel Galeano García, the current Fiscal Attorney of the current Federation, said in the same space that there is no need for a specific meeting with the tax authority, since Salinas Pliego could pay today.
The business group reaffirmed in its statement its position of paying its debts in accordance with the resolutions of the SAT and the rulings of the courts, “which establish that double collection is not appropriate.”
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For this reason, he added, their companies sent letters to the SAT requesting the adjustment of tax credits and the construction of a space for dialogue to implement the resolutions of the tax collection body.
“The agreement reached with the previous administration was the result of dozens of conversations under the principles of good will and implied a solution in accordance with the law. At Grupo Salinas we value and respect the word; having shaken hands has more validity than a signed piece of paper,” he said.
“Now, it is worrying that, from a position of prejudice and from the highest forum in the country, the Attorney General disqualifies our right to access to justice. Even more so that she instructs the SAT to deny us the constitutional right to petition,” he added.
