The Servicio de Administración Tributaria (SAT) collected 3.407 trillion pesos in tax revenue from January to July 2026, representing a 0.0% real annual growth rate. ^[1] Gabriela Siller, director of Economic and Financial Analysis at Banco BASE, stated that in four of the eight months with available information in 2026, none of the analysts surveyed by Banco de México considered it a good time to invest. ^[2] Private sector specialists raised their GDP growth forecast for 2026 to 1.25%, up from a previous estimate of 1.11%, according to the eighth monthly survey by Banco de México. ^[3] Experts report that a US worker can earn up to 10 times more than a Mexican worker performing the exact same job within the same production chain under the USMCA. ^[4] Income tax (ISR) collections declined 6.0% year-over-year from January to July 2026, totaling 1.777 trillion pesos compared to 1.820 trillion pesos in the same period of 2025. ^[5] Tax collection efforts fell 2.7% below the budgeted target of 3.503 trillion pesos for the first seven months of 2026. ^[6] VAT (IVA) collections grew 9.9% year-over-year to 1.041 trillion pesos, reaching their highest growth rate for the January-July period since 2021. ^[7] Specialists identified governance as the main factor that could hinder Mexico's growth over the next six months, with 41% of responses, followed by external conditions at 26% and internal economic conditions at 25%. ^[8] The survey, conducted between August 18 and 26, collected expectations from 41 national and foreign analysis and consulting groups. ^[9] Janneth Quiroz, director of Economic Analysis, Currency, and Stock Market at Monex, explained that the wage gap responds to structural factors including labor productivity, technological intensity, physical capital per worker, innovation levels, industrial specialization, and value added. ^[10] Rolando Javier Salinas García, a researcher at the Labor Center of the Autonomous University of Querétaro, stated that a US worker can earn 9.58 times more than their Mexican counterpart despite performing the same activity. ^[11] Salinas García added that the absence of real collective bargaining and union power in Mexico is a key factor, noting that corporate-dominated unions serve companies and governments rather than workers, keeping wages artificially low. ^[12]