Industrial chamber criticizes tax increase

Once again Baja California legislators had shown their lack of sensitivity towards their community, said José Eugenio Lagarde Amaya, president of the National Chamber of the Transformation Industry (CANACINTRA) in Mexicali.

Referring to the tax increases approved April 24 by the National Regeneration Movement (aka Morena) and its allies in the midst of the SARS CoV-2 pandemic, the chamber’s leader said the approval came to fruition while the country is collapsing due to the public health emergency. He said the economy is practically paralyzed in its entirety; the loss of jobs rises to tens of thousands, and the closure of companies in the state continues.

“Even so, in this scenario, lawmakers approved new taxes aimed at gasoline, natural gas, LP gas and digital platform services,” Lagarde Amaya said.

The chamber’s president called the approval “an immoral and reprehensible act.”

Lagarde said lawmakers continue to put stones on the road, further complicating the economic recovery.

“It is a fact that the current legislators heeded orders from their party. Apparently they are determined to bring the country and the state to the worst crisis in history at the worst possible time,” he said.

Lagarde said manufacturers are fed up with public servants and representatives who represent nobody but their own interests and who, like their predecessors, use their partisan majority to continue generating more damage to the public.

During a virtual session held April 24, Morena lawmakers and their allies approved taxes on emissions of gases into the atmosphere, (local tax on gasoline and on LP and natural gas).