Mexico's Finance Ministry (Secretaría de Hacienda) delivers its 2027 Economic Package to the Chamber of Deputies this Tuesday, September 8, including the Revenue Law and the Expenditure Budget for the coming year. The document arrives amid a significant forecast gap on the public deficit: the ministry projects it will close at 3.5% of GDP in 2027, while Banamex analysts put the figure at 4.6%, according to Bloomberg Línea.
President Claudia Sheinbaum previewed in her Second Government Report that fiscal consolidation will be gradual and that public investment will be maintained. Analysts consulted by El Universal expect the package to reaffirm the commitment to deficit reduction through spending adjustments, with no new taxes, though an additional increase on sugary beverage duties has not been ruled out. Mexico retains investment-grade status with S&P Global, Moody's, and Fitch, but is on the verge of losing it with two of them: Moody's downgraded the country from Baa2 to Baa3 in May, and Fitch holds BBB- with warnings in place since April.
Investment-grade status matters because it determines the cost of public debt financing and, with it, the fiscal space available to the next administration. The data markets are watching makes the pressure clear: the Public Sector Borrowing Requirements (Requerimientos Financieros del Sector Público), the broadest measure of the deficit, reached 5.8% of GDP in 2024, the highest level since 1988, and convergence toward 3% has been pushed back year after year. From January through July, income tax (Impuesto Sobre la Renta) revenue fell 6% in annual real terms, the steepest contraction for that period since 2009, according to Finance Ministry data cited by Bloomberg Línea. "The credibility of the fiscal trajectory will be the main element to assess," Arely Medina, a researcher at Banamex, told that outlet. For Janneth Quiroz, director of analysis at Monex, the package's core test is fiscal consolidation, and spending adjustments carry the risk of cutting into public investment.
The ministry will present the package this Tuesday at 18:00 at the Chamber of Deputies, where negotiations over the 2027 budget now begin. The next signal for markets will be whether the announced adjustment convinces the rating agencies that currently keep the sovereign rating under review.
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