Overview

• Ricardo Salinas Pliego proposed an open and “responsible” dialogue table to reach agreements on how his companies would pay what he called a fair amount of taxes.
• President Claudia Sheinbaum replied that “the law is not negotiated,” rejecting private deals and stressing that any dialogue must occur through formal SAT and judicial channels.
• Sheinbaum said numerous technical working sessions have already been held on the case and reiterated that any taxpayer has the right to be heard by the SAT.
• Federal calculations report that Grupo Salinas owes about 74 billion pesos, including updates and surcharges, and that there are 32 active litigations involving the conglomerate.
• The outreach followed earlier threats by Salinas Pliego to sue in Mexico and the United States, a strategy legal experts say would likely fail in U.S. courts due to sovereign immunity.