Dozens Roll in Demonstration Against Sales Levy Hike in Border Zones Sandra Dibble - U-T San Diego
go to original November 11, 2013

Citizens attend the "Caravana del Repudio", in the city of Tijuana, northwest Mexico, on Nov. 10, 2013.

TIJUANA — A protest against Mexico’s newly approved sales tax hike for border areas brought several dozen drivers to steer through Tijuana’s streets on Sunday. The “Caravan of Repudiation” ended an hour after it started, with collective honking outside the municipal office of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, the PRI.

The demonstration was the latest show of discontent in Baja California after legislative approval last month of a 5 percent sales tax increase for border areas — from 11 percent to 16 percent. Set to go into effect on Jan. 1, the measure ends the lower rate for areas of the country considered border regions, and creates a uniform sales tax for all of Mexico.

... The increase is part of a fiscal reform package passed in Mexico’s Congress last month with support of the PRI and its allies. The change would end more than three decades of differential treatment for border zones, which include the entire states of Baja California and Baja California Sur, a 12.5-mile zone that runs along Mexico’s northern border, and parts of the states of Chiapas and Quintana Roo on the southern border.

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