Tag Archives: Nuevo León

Lawmakers in the state of Nuevo León have voted to end a tax placed on slot machines last year. The decision was made after the tax failed to increase revenues for the state.  A new tax was put on each slot machine in 2021. The tax stood at around US$4 per day per slot machine….

The government of Nuevo León sent a partial version of the Fiscal Package for 2023 to the state congress. Amongst the proposed changes is an increased tax hike on casinos from 10 to 15 per cent.  The tax increases are part of a wider package of hikes including increases for transport, alcoholic beverages and new…

The Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico, Yasmín Esquivel, has put forward a proposal to the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court to rule against an additional tax that states such as Nuevo León, Mexico City and Puebla have imposed on casinos. The regulation, which was created in Nuevo León in 2017…

According to the Financial Report for the second quarter of 2018 sent by the State Treasury to Parliament, gaming tax revenue is up by 84.7 per cent in the state of Nuevo Leon. Tax collection for gaming increased 84.7 per cent compared to the second quarter of 2017, adding up to $446 million. In all…

A casino in the Mexican city of Monterrey in the state of Nuevo León has been shot at by a group of men who were aboard a moving vehicle, causing commotion amongst those in the area and the rapid intervention of police forces. No people were injured during the event which occurred in the early…

Samuel García, coordinator of political party The Citizens’ Movement (Movimiento Ciudadano) and Deputy for Nuevo León has stated said that during the administration of former governor of the state Rodrigo Medina, no casino was audited in six years, because they were in all likelihood linked to organised crime. “It is no coincidence that organised crime…

Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, the Governor of the northern state of Nuevo León, has ruled out the possibility that he could present an initiative that would prevent the opening of more casinos, because “society has the right to have a good time.” Nearly six years after the fire at Casino Royale in the city of Monterrey,…

The Government of Nuevo Leon’s bid to raise just over a billion pesos with new casino taxes is failing. During the first quarter of the year, the state has raised just over US2.6m pesos via the taxation on gaming only 2.13 per cent of what had been estimated for 2017. The information comes from the…

While protests against the new ten per cent tax on gambling continue to grow members of the PRI party (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI) have formally presented a request to the governor Jaime Rodríguez Calderón for a 50 per cent discount for senior citizens. The leader of the Deputies of the PRI party Marco González Valdez…