Fernanda Duran
He Full of the State Congress approved the third postponement of the entry into force of the Tax on the Emission of Polluting Gases into the Atmosphere in San Luis Potosíso it goes from 1st of July to the January 1, 2025 with a modification to decree 1050.
The proposal was raised by the deputies of the parties Green Ecologist of Mexico (PVEM), from work (PT) and New Allianceand received only this June 27 in the Plenary, so in a vote “of urgent and obvious resolution”, two thirds of the congressmen present confirmed the change of date without the need to analyze it in committees.
Prior to his vote, and as on previous occasions, the deputy Ulices Mendoza Padron mentioned that the delay is so that the State Goverment have more time “to promote knowledge and forms of application of the new tax and its operating rules, among the obligated subjects.”
While in recent days the deputy José Luis Fernandez Martínez explained that the initiative is based on the request of the secretary of Economic development, Salvador González Martínezto establish a dialogue with the business sector and the Finance Secretary to optimize the operating rules of the tax.
He mentioned that with this the State will have more time to perfect the operating rules, since one of the aspects to be analyzed is the methodology to determine the amount of polluting gas emissions by the subjects obliged to pay the tax, since the proposal The original contemplated self-determination by companies, but alternatives are being evaluated that allow a more precise quantification of the tax burden.
In the last modification, it was established that it will be applied to the direct expulsion into the atmosphere of the following gases: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), black carbon, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs). ), hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) and perfluorocarbons (PFC).
The obligation to present the registration notice to the Secretariat and the Logbook with records of the Monthly Operation Cardsin addition to reducing the payment per ton of emissions by three Units of Measurement and Update (UMA’s) just one.
