Mexico's Interjet challenges tax authority over debt collection

Mexico’s Interjet said on Monday that a judge has suspended an order for the airline to pay off fiscal debt and that it is challenging the tax authority’s assessment of what it owes. “Interjet is clearing up differences over taxes that it believes are erroneous,” it said. Shortly after Interjet’s announcement, however, Mexico’s finance ministry and the tax authority SAT issued a joint statement that said SAT had taken steps to collect debt from “an airline” and that the process is in litigation. Mexican newspaper Reforma reported on Monday that the SAT has aimed to retain 10% of Interjet’s cash earnings to compensate for debts accumulated between 2013 and 2017. A judge’s order from last month, cited by Reforma, was redacted to black out the total amount owed, but showed that taxes in those years were only partially paid.<br/>