Mexico City, (EFE) .- The Permanent Commission of Congress agreed to form a plural group of legislators who travel to the United States to dialogue with congressmen from that country in an attempt to stop the 5% tax on the remittances sent by migrants.
The president of the Political Coordination Board, Adam Augusto López, raised the formation of a group of legislators, who will attend the House of Representatives, with the aim of setting the position of Congress against the proposal of the tax. The approach was backed by the different parliamentary coordinators.
“It would be unfortunate that this tax was imposed or this tax on remittances that Mexicans send to their country,” but it is also a proposal that violates human rights, “said López Hernández.
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He explained that “it is unfair that any citizen pays a double taxation”, because when they receive the salary that is the result of their work, they already discourage a tax percentage.
The assistance of the senators, he said, “is for the voice of Mexico to be heard, which is in a position to speak, nothing more for our migrants, but for all migrants in the world.”
López Hernández also said that it is necessary to send a technical and political document, “in which our position” of rejection of this initiative is set before the corresponding commission of the United States.
He indicated that in the world migrants of various nationalities that lie in the United States transfer approximately 650,000 million dollars, of which Mexico receives remittances in the order of more than 65,000 million pesos.
This Wednesday, President Claudia Sheinbaum described the United States initiative as “injustice.” “No, we do not agree on this injustice, which is discriminatory.”
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Sheinbaum’s reaction occurs after Tuesday, legislators of the EU Congress, of a republican majority, seek to advance ‘the only, large and beautiful bill’, promoted by Congressman Jason Smith in the House of Representatives that contemplates, among other things, a 5% tax on remittances and that would fall on the issuer.
In this regard, Sheinbaum said Mexican migrants already pay their respective taxes in the United States.
Mexico received 14,269 million dollars in remittances in the first quarter of 2025, an annual increase of 1.3%, while revenues rebound 2.7% in March, after a reduction in February, the first full month of the presidency of Donald Trump in the United States, origin of almost all these shipments and in the middle of the hardening of migration policies.
Mexico, where these shipments represent almost 4% of the economy, spin 11 years of annual remittance increases after finishing 2024 with a record of 64,745 million dollars and is positioned as the second largest receiver of these currencies in the world only behind India.
Advance tax plans and spending on Trump
The Republicans advanced on Wednesday in important elements of President Donald Trump’s budget package, while key committees approved tax cuts that would add dollars to US debt, while cutting the expense in medical care for the poor and disabled.
Trump’s “great and beautiful bill” would add billions of dollars to national debt, which with 36.2 billion dollars currently equals 127% of GDP.
The package foresees 4 billion dollars in additional loans, although the total cost is uncertain at the moment.
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The president of the House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, told the press that his party was on his way to passing the huge legislation before the Fallen Day Holiday, on May 26. However, he still faced dissent within his own party.
With Reuters information
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