The provision raised doubts about how, based on this provision, institutions such as the SAT could receive tax payments from taxpayers; payments for services such as property taxes or how the payroll itself would be paid to state workers by federal agencies or entities.
María Elvira Concheiro Bórquez, treasurer of the Federation, denied that this was a break between private banking and the public sector, and that it is a provision to bring order to bank accounts opened by local governments or government agencies of previous administrations.
“This is a rearrangement of old accounts from previous administrations, they messed up a lot. The accounts that are not in the Single Treasury Account in the name of the dependencies have to be registered by the Treasury, what we have done is ask the dependencies to reopen the accounts they need, and close all the accounts that are old, so old administrations that were left hanging there, it is not a small number”, explained the Treasurer in an interview with Grupo Fórmula on Tuesday.
He ruled out that users of public services could be affected by this provision, and that it is a way of bringing order and transparency to the use of public resources.
“Such accounts presented a series of inconsistencies, such as being opened for several decades due to past efforts without having balance information, opened under the name of people who are no longer in the public service, with classification errors, among others,” added the Treasury in its statement.
The dependency mentioned that the amending agreement is aimed at updating the registry of accounts by exception, preparing a new database that follows opening, management and cancellation guidelines that will make their management more transparent and effective.
It should be noted that, if the agencies and entities omit this request, Tesofe will inform the internal control body, for its competence in matters of administrative responsibilities of public servants, refers to the third transitory article.
