US EditionDeputies Seek to Tax Electrolytic Serums; “They Are Not Medicines”
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The Chamber of Deputies lists a package of increases in taxes on cigarettes and sugary drinks, as well as taxing electrolytic serums, which have stopped paying contributions when advertised as “medicines”, when they are not. The additional revenues expected by the new quotas, as a whole, would be about 51 billion pesos.
Representatives of the Green Party and the Labour Party presented an initiative to levy taxes on oral electrolytes, since they claim that they are sold as medicines, but they are sugary drinks that evade warning stamps and compete in advantage over soft drinks or other sweetened liquids. If they impose the tariffs, the legislators provide for the collection of 5 billion pesos. The approach, published in the Parliamentary Gazette, aims to reform …
In the context of the appearance of the secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Édgar Amador, in the Chamber of Deputies, did not miss the occurrences and is that the deputy of the Labor Party, José Antonio López, ‘recommended’ to impose taxes on electrolytes, arguing that they contain a ‘high level of sugar’. [...] The article Recommends deputy of the PT to the holder of the Treasury to impose taxes on electrolytes to ‘generate more money’ appe…
The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) analyses taxing beverages such as Electrolit and Suerox, in the midst of the discussion of the Economic Package 2026. Currently, these products are exempt from taxes for their classification as rehydrating serums for medical use, in contrast to common sugary beverages. Deputies of the Green Ecological Party of Mexico (PVEM) and Labor (PT), suggested to Édgar Amador Zamora, holder of the SCHP, that…
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