President Claudia Sheinbaum has shown her dissent for the proposal discussed in the United States Congress to tax remittances sent by migrants, with a 5%tax. The proposal has already been approved by a commission of the House of Representatives with the majority of votes of the Republicans, authors of the initiative, and threatens to reach the Senate. The immediate measures of the Mexican government include a diplomatic operation that has started with letters to congressmen and meetings. In parallel, the president has launched a call to migrants on Friday to do the same manifesting their opposition to parliamentarians. The president has argued that the proposal is discriminatory, violates binational treaties and implies double taxation. With this new controversy, the government has opened a new front in the complicated relationship with the US.
“It is a good idea that our nationals in the United States, our countrymen also send letters to their congressmen, have nationality or not, saying that this tax would be discriminatory,” said the president this Friday at her morning conference. From another trench, the Mexican ambassador, Esteban Moctezuma, has met with Republican congressmen to expose the position of Mexico and express the disagreement, Sheinbaum explained. The Consulate strategy also poses meetings with Mexican organizations in the neighboring country to explain the implications that the initiative has.
“We do not agree. First, it is discriminatory and second, it violates a treaty between Mexico and the United States,” Sheinbaum insisted. The Mexican government has drawn a road map to try to stop this new measure that, if approved, will affect the millions of nationals who send remittances to their families. “A commission of the Senate of all political parties accompanies the Mexican ambassador to the United States so that they can talk to congressmen to tell them that it is not a good idea. We will do the same with the United States government, even if it is an initiative of Congress,” he explained.
The Secretary of the Treasury, Edgar Amador Zamora, has seconded the president in his position on the discriminatory and fiscal implications of the measure. “Approveing this new tax would be to violate the current treaty between Mexico and the United States” not to record nationals who reside in the other country. The amount of shipments is not less. In 2024, Mexico received 64.7 billion dollars, equivalent to 3.5% of the national gross domestic product, revealed the person in charge of the Public Treasury.
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