Coparmex CDMX asks to continue with the exemption of the Payroll Tax for 2023

Derived from the fact that the Economic Package 2023 of Mexico Citywhere it is added that the city still has to recover 5,969 jobs with respect to pre-pandemic times, the Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic (coparmex) from the capital requested that the payroll tax exemption incentive be maintained.

According to the president of the Coparmex Mexico CityArmando Zúñiga Salinas, during 2022 has been exempted from paying the Payroll tax for three months to the new jobs generated by micro and small businesses in the city, this local tax incentive was applied as a measure of economic reactivation.

By 2023, as Private initiative they seek to ensure the permanence of the tax incentive and be able to apply it to other sectors, for this reason local legislators have already been asked to analyze it.

“We consider that for next year this benefit should be extended to employers, not only who create new jobs, but also those who already exist to support sectors such as tourism, services, restaurants, shows, the transformation industry and construction , as well as extend this benefit to medium and large companies that are responsible for the generation of more than 75% of formal jobs in Mexico City”, he stressed.

The president of the Business Center revealed that they are also looking for a gradual reduction in the tax rate Payroll tax to formal companies in general, with the intention of attracting new investments, new employers and expanding projects that generate more jobs.

“We must continue advancing in promoting all the necessary public policies and tools at our disposal to maintain the economic reactivation for the following year and one of them is undoubtedly promoting the exemption,” he said.

to recover

The leader of the capital’s businessmen assured that the economic recovery is still pending, considering the projection they have for 2023, where a scenario of deceleration, inflationary adjustment towards the end of the year and difficulties in attracting productive investments are glimpsed.

However, he considered that one of the signs of recovery is the rate of job creation.

In accordance with Coparmex of Mexico Citythe capital of the country has managed to generate 128,477 jobs as of November, to be this 2022 the one with the highest job creation in recent years, in addition to surpassing the state of Nuevo León, where 110,098 were established in the same period.

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