Alma E. Muñoz, Arturo Sánchez and Lorenzo Chim
Reporters and correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 15, 2025, p. 4
If Ricardo Salinas Pliego does not pay his tax debts – for more than 48 billion pesos –, the government will initiate the corresponding legal procedures, after the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) made firm the rulings of the collegiate courts against Grupo Salinas, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo assured yesterday.
He warned in the morning of the town that if the businessman “decides not to pay, there will be a long procedure, it is not one day, two or weeks; it takes time, but it is justice.”
Later, touring Campeche, he assured that “good businessmen receive their profits and of course, paying taxes; there are some who do not like to pay what they owe, but the country is fine because the economic model changed.”
In the National Palace, he stated that last Thursday, the Court “simply ratified what other instances (tax authority, Federal Court of Administrative Justice and Collegiate Circuit Courts) had already said: it has to do with compliance with the law and with an impartial Judiciary.”
The President rejected that there had been authoritarianism, a political action or a slogan to the Court, as some argue.
“No, (those cases) have already gone through one process, another and another; the Court decides that what this business group presents is not appropriate.”
However, there were “15 years of litigation that reached the (old) Court at the time and left them frozen, in a drawer.”
So, “in reality what the (current) Court does is reject seven appeals that this business group had filed and leaves valid what was at the time the decision of the SAT (Tax Administration Service)”, for which “the sentences remain final.”
He specified that “much of this happened before President (Andrés Manuel) López Obrador arrived (to the government, in 2018), because they are fiscal years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013.” That is, they are not “from when the Fourth Transformation began, but very old.”
The Treasury will explain the steps to follow
Sheinbaum Pardo also considered that “it is not strange” how the ministers resolved, but how much the business group must pay must be ratified.
“The Tax Code establishes a series of benefits for those who owe taxes, according to the fines they pay. If they do not pay, they increase… there are also procedures to guarantee that they pay, because it is the law.”
Therefore, he indicated that “the SAT has to do the calculation and has to show it, because everything is within the framework of the law.”
Around 9 in the morning, he declared that the Court had not notified that instance of its decision, but when it happens “another procedure will be entered.”
–Are there no excuses not to pay? –It was insisted to him in the National Palace, after he read the SCJN statement on its resolution.
–Now comes another procedure, that is also important to know. We are going to ask the Treasury to come and explain the procedures – he responded.
“First you notify. If you pay, the matter is resolved; if you don’t pay, then a series of procedures have to come that are part of a legal process that has to be fulfilled.”
But, he stressed, “it is a resolution that has to do with our justice system, it is not by slogan, it is not that someone spoke to the judges to tell them ‘hey, notice that please resolve this way because the President wants it’; no, they have autonomy and they resolve.”
