MÉRIDA.- The Business Coordinating Council (CCE) of Yucatánalong with the 19 Chambers and Organizations that comprise it, regrets the lack of dialogue and surprising manner in which the administration of Joaquín Díaz Mena aims to increase the Payroll Tax (ISN) from the next January 1.
“Decisions of this magnitude They cannot be taken with their backs to the productive sector. Resolving without dialogue generates uncertainty and weakens trust in our institutions,” a statement quotes.
According to the Economic Censuses 2024in Yucatán around 5% of companies have more than 10 workers; However, this segment concentrates a determining proportion of the state’s formal employment. With figures updated as of October 2025, Yucatán registers 440,307 formal jobs, of which 290,602—equivalent to 66%—belong to medium and large companies.
Therefore, is imprecise and leads to wrong interpretations affirm that the increase in Payroll Tax “would only affect 4% of companies”, when in reality the impact falls directly on the majority of formal employment in the state.
Additionally, the proposed increase to the ISN would generate differentiated effects that severely impact all productive segments:
- Las MSMES They would face a 13% increase in their contribution to the ISN, despite being the pillar of the business fabric and the basis of formality.
- Las medium and large companies They would assume an increase of 25%, precisely those that concentrate the greatest number of jobs and support strategic investment projects in the state.
This increase reduces operating capacity, limits the creation of new jobs and puts at risk the job stability of thousands of Yucatecan families, affecting the competitiveness and the continuity of investments.
Blow to formality
It is worrying that the way to obtain greater fiscal resources is to impose an additional burden on companies for each job they maintain and for each new job they generate. This decision affects those They bet on formalitywithout touching those who operate in the informal sector, deteriorating the competitiveness and stability of the formal labor market.
With surprise we heard that now it will be the private sector the fact that will finance, with more taxes, the expansion of the Puerto de Altura, when from the beginning it had been reported that the project would be covered with a credit authorized in the previous administration, paid with the income generated by port usersin addition to a majority investment from the Federal Government. The need to increase the ISN for this purpose was never raised to the business sector.
The unilateral decision to increase taxes to the private initiative compromises the investments planned for the coming years, affects the flow of companies and puts at risk the creation of more and better jobs. Raising taxes on those who generate jobs may seem like an easy way to obtain short-term resources, but it ignores the negative effects in the medium and long terms.
We respectfully invite the deputies of the Congress of Yucatán to reflect your vote with the responsibility and analysis that this moment demands, and with the vision of the future that Yucatán deserves.
We trust that, thinking about the development of our state, it will be decided not to increase the tax burden on payroll and, instead, to strengthen economic growth, business confidence and the opportunity to build a better future for all.