Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced that the country reached a historic milestone in tax revenue collection in 2025, totaling 6.045 trillion pesos a real increase of 4.8 percent compared to the previous year without the need to raise taxes. She emphasized that this achievement is the result of a direct fight against tax evasion and a strategy focused on fiscal efficiency.
During her morning press conference, the president explained that the additional 487.4 billion pesos in revenue has been allocated to priority programs such as social welfare, public infrastructure, healthcare, and education. For 2026, the projected revenue stands at 6.4 trillion pesos, representing an additional increase of 496.3 billion pesos over 2025.
Sheinbaum noted that the Tax Administration Service (SAT) will focus its efforts on tackling two practices that lead to major financial losses: operations involving fake invoice companies and customs-related tax evasion. “Not paying taxes is also a form of corruption,” she stated, while affirming that there is still room to grow public revenues through legal and ethical means.
Finance Secretary Edgar Amador Zamora announced new transparency measures for audits, including limiting reviews to one per taxpayer, narrowing the scope of items subject to audit, and speeding up refund timelines to five business days for individuals and 30 for corporations.
Finally, SAT Chief Antonio Martínez Dagnino reported that compliance with the Federal Revenue Law reached 101.6 percent. Customs revenue accounted for 27.1 percent of net tax income, with an increase of 246 billion pesos over 2024 equivalent to a real growth of 16 percent.
