The fall in government revenues and the urgent need to increase public spending to combat the health and economic crisis of COVID-19 have prompted the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit to adopt new strategies. One of these has been to reduce fiscal stimulus in the IEPS (Special Tax on Production and Services), which are mainly on gasoline, alcohol, beer and tobacco. The decline in these fiscal stimuli is understandable for consumer goods, however, it is questionable when it comes to production inputs.
In the case of the fishing and aquaculture sector, two essential inputs are Marine Diesel and Coastal Gasoline. The announcement of Friday, May 29, by the SHCP to eliminate fiscal stimulus from IEPS 1 brings greater dissatisfaction to the fishing sector. Previously, this fiscal stimulus was greater than 40%, which represents a very significant change in the costs faced by fishermen
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