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Weekly Report - 17 September 2009 (WR-09-37)
MEXICO: PRI gives thumbs down to tax proposal
The opposition Partido Revolucionario
Institucional (PRI), which controls congress, said last week that it would not
support the government's 2010 budget proposal to tax food and medicine at 2%.
This position was endorsed by the other parties in congress on 15 September
after the finance minister, Agustín Carstens, testified to congress for five
hours.
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