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Mexico’s Supreme Court Upholds Televisa Tax Refund, Limits Automatic Interest in Fiscal Cases

The Court ruled the Treasury lacked standing to seek review, over dissents warning of harm to public finances.

Overview

  • SAT must pay Grupo Televisa 103,073,347 pesos with inflation updates, and the refund cannot be blocked.
  • The 6–3 decision came in amparo en revisión 2473/2025, adopting Minister Irving Espinosa Betanzo’s project to dismiss the Treasury’s appeal.
  • The new payment is additional to 288,671,887 pesos previously returned and stems from improper taxes tied to fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2003 and 2004.
  • In a separate ruling resolving contradiction 158/2018, the Court set a binding precedent that interest is not automatic when a fiscal credit is annulled and applies only if a judgment expressly orders a refund.
  • Ministers Lenia Batres Guadarrama and María Estela Ríos González dissented on standing and fiscal impact, with Arístides Rodrigo Guerrero García also voting against.