Report: White House weighing a tax on remittances to Mexico to fund border wall

[TheWPCTraveler]

FIT_Gamer said:
Rogers introduced a bill in March to levy a 2 percent tax on all cash transfers from "anybody who remits to South America."

Last time I checked Mexico was North America.

It appears to be House Bill 1813, sponsored by Mike Roger (the congressman in question).

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1813/text

 

  The relevant text is as follows:

“(g) Border security fee collection.—

 

“(1) IN GENERAL.—

 

“(A) FEES.—If the designated recipient of a remittance transfer is located in a foreign country described in subparagraph (B), a remittance transfer provider shall collect from the sender of such remittance transfer a remittance fee equal to 2 percent of the United States dollar amount to be transferred (excluding any fees or other charges imposed by the remittance transfer provider). Except as provided in subparagraph (C), such remittance fees shall be submitted to the Treasury to be expended for the purpose of improving border security.

 

 

“(B) FOREIGN COUNTRIES.—Subparagraph (A) shall apply to designated recipients located in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Aruba, Curacao, the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, or Argentina.

 

 

“(C) COSTS.—For the 5-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this subsection, a remittance transfer provider may retain up to 5 percent of any remittance fees collected by such remittance transfer provider pursuant to subparagraph (A) to cover the costs of collecting and submitting such remittance fees."

Within the available text of the bill, there is no reference made to the continent to which the countries in (B) belong to.