Overview

• Deputies on the Hacienda Commission held a working meeting with more than 30 business and trade groups to review the Executive’s proposal, with a draft opinion scheduled for Monday.
• CAAREM’s José Ignacio Zaragoza argued that making agents directly responsible conflicts with their role and with T-MEC obligations, warning it would raise foreign-trade costs.
• Brokers said they would advise refusing difficult-to-classify shipments if the bill is approved as sent and warned of disruptions to chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, agronomics, fertilizers, and medical inputs.
• Descriptions of the draft cite tougher sanctions, including fines of 250% to 350% of omitted taxes or commercial value, which agents say would shift the system to punitive fiscalization.
• ANAM head Rafael Marín defended the change as a way to curb misclassification and tax evasion schemes such as the fuel “huachicol,” saying Article 54 would impose joint liability on brokers.