Sugar union owes 40 MDP for taxes of 2 hotels

Jared Laureles and Jessica Xantomila

La Jornada newspaper
Friday, April 18, 2025, p. 6

The Union of Workers of the Sugar Industry and the Similar Industry of the Mexican Republic owes 40 million pesos to the Treasury because in the previous leadership the corresponding taxes of two hotels were not paid and for false statements to the treasury, its secretary general revealed, Lorenzo Pale Mendoza.

In his past National Council, he said that an Supervisory Commission was created to review the guild’s account states and indicated that 160 million pesos have already been paid in taxes that were due, but 40 million are still pending.

When assuming this responsibility, who were in the sight of me and fellow Armando Becerra (current head of the Finance Portfolio) before the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit for the debts that were. It was a very difficult situation that fortunately playing doors we could already lower that amount of debt, which sounds quite high, but if we could already pay 160 million, why we are not going to pay 40commented in the LXVI National Council.

According to information from the sugar union, debts correspond to fiscal exercises 2019 and 2020, and at the time the union leader argued that Who was in charge of these hotels He did not make the payments.

Because of that, the Tax Administration Service initiated legal actions to collect the debt of quotas and taxes of the Los Angeles Locos, Tenacatita, Jalisco, and El Taninul hotels, located in Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosí, both owned by the union.

Pale Mendoza was Secretary of Finance during the last three national leaders of the union, including that of José Ángel Ponce García, whom it happened after died in August 2021 at 83 years of age.

The current general secretary of the sugar industry union was elected in November 2022 for a period of six years, and a year later, in 2023, he reported these irregularities. The trade union organization, made up of 42 sections distributed in 16 states of the country, said there is a commitment to cover those earrings.

Another challenge that the sugar union evaluates is that of the retoup of some positions to prevent workers who have lower salaries being over We want to fill with pawnshe said.