President Andrés Manuel López Obrador rejected this Friday that his administration is carrying out investigations against LigaMX clubs, including the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) for tax evasion, largely because there is no longer an exemption. tax.
For some years, various national football clubs have been targeted by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) for fraud in the recruitment of players and for forgiveness in the payment of their taxes in past administrations.
“There are no investigations into tax evasion because the decision has been made to ban tax forgiveness, there may be some forgiveness in our government because constitutional reform was not approved from the start,” he said.
“You can’t give a billion peso tax subsidy, it’s excessive. There should be no tax rebates to private companies and that is resolved,” he said.
In this sense, the head of the federal executive explained that sports organizations must improve their contracting and financing procedures in order to ensure greater transparency in their operations.
“It must be an initiative of sports promoters, that regulation is not enough, just as we are talking about the press, that the press is regulated with the press. The same sports organizations that need to improve their procedures, their performance and in the case of the government, that they take care of the assets of the people,” he said.
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