Billionaire Salinas Faces $2.8 Billion Mexico Tax Claim Showdown

Companies controlled by billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego will get a multibillion-dollar tax bill in January, and he will need to pay up or face consequences, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday.

In the wake of a series of Supreme Court rulings, Salinas’s companies next month will be sent 51 billion pesos ($2.8 billion) in tax claims from audits running from 2008 to 2013, Mexico’s tax chief, Antonio Martinez Dagnino, said during the president’s daily media conference.

Sheinbaum denied Salinas’ claims that the government is going after his companies due to his opposition to her party and criticisms of ...