The General Directorate of Internal Taxes (DGII) reported this Thursday that it raised 79,480.7 million pesos during Octoberamong other things, thanks to a 7.5% growth in the income tax of employees, explained by a 13% increase in the number of taxed workers and a 6.3% increase in the amount withheld.
At a time when the country is debating whether or not to apply the salary indexationwhich is the percentage of income tax (ISR) that is withheld from workers’ salaries and that must be adjusted to the inflation rate at the time, but that has not been done since 2017, the DGII indicated that the ISR withholding of individuals collected 9,891.5 million pesos.
The DGII reported that the amount collected last month exceeded by 5,815.1 million of pesos collected in October 2024, which represents a growth of 7.9%.
Last month’s result exceeds the goal established in the General State Budgetreaching a compliance of 100.6%.
With the collection of Octoberthe DGII meets 63 consecutive months exceeding collection estimates, since August 2020.
In the period from January to October of this year, the DGII raised 766,210.6 million of pesos, which represents 100.2% compliance with the estimate and a surplus of 1,516.5 million. The amount represents a growth of 8.7% compared to the same period in 2024, equivalent to an additional 61,129.1 million.
Main taxes
Regarding the performance of the main taxesthe ISR of the companies and assets represented 16,631.9 million of pesos of the income of October. Meanwhile, the transfer tax of industrialized goods and services generated 16,529.4 million, with a growth of 8.7%, driven by the commerce, construction and hotels, bars, restaurants sectors.
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Likewise, the mining tax had an extraordinary performance, registering a total collection of 9,570.5 million pesos, for a positive variation of 5,157.4 million above, in relation to October 2024. This result was driven by the rise in the price of gold, greater efficiency in the sector’s production costs and the end of advance compensation for 2021.
Meanwhile, the selective tax fuels collected 7,852.2 million pesos. The others taxes together they generated 19,005.1 million pesos, completing the total collected by the institution in October.
