The Chamber of Deputies approved the 2010 revenue packet that aims to raise three trillion pesos…
* Deputies ratified an increase in the value added tax to 16 percent, an increase to the income tax to 30 percent on income greater than 10,300 pesos monthly and an increase from two to three percent on the IDE tax, or tax on cash deposits of over 15,000 pesos a month, not the current 20,000 pesos…
* Deputies stopped short of taxing communications companies, cellular phones and cigarettes, so the reforms will be once again be sent to the Senate…
* Lawmakers will renew sessions on Wednesday and the next item on the agenda is the spending budget for 2010…
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The Labor Board was unable to declare an end of labor relations between workers at power utility Luz y Fuerza del Centro, since a federal judge accepted a protection writ or amparo filed by the Mexican Electricians Union… The board recognized the Mexican Electricians Union as a legal entity still able to negotiate on behalf of its members… SME announced that starting on Thursday the union will launch massive protests in 14 states…
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Heavy rainstorms in Mexico City and environs on Friday left a deadly toll… Six people were killed in Ecatepec and three in Tultitlán; 14 people were injured and three more were reported as disappeared… Four thousand homes were damaged as well as 120 vehicles…
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In other news, four bodies, victims of a massacre, were found in Mexico City’s Miguel Hidalgo borough… The bodies were inside a car with Nuevo León license plates… One of the victims appeared to be Héctor Saldaña, alias "El Negro," who allegedly heads the Beltrán Leyva drug cartel’s operations in Nuevo León.
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Armed commandos attacked two federal police precincts and a state police command centre on the coast of Guerrero… No one was wounded in the attacks that caused only damage to facilities and vehicles…
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The Attorney General’s Office will take on the case of the massacre in Cajeme, Sonora, last Friday in which 15 people were shot and killed, among them Margarito Montes Parra, leader of the General Workers, Peasants and Popular Union.
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Banks and the Mexican Stock Exchange will be closed because of the Day of the Dead… The U.S. Embassy and consulates also close for the holiday…
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