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Mexico: Recent Developments

Mexico: Recent Developments

The Mexican government adopted its 2022 budget in late October 2021. Several provisions place special emphasis on plugging gaps in tax compliance. More power has been given to the Mexican tax administration when conducting tax examinations. Taxpayers under tax examinations face serious penalties where noncompliance is found to exist, including potential application of the domain extinction law, a forfeiture provision that applies ordinarily in serious criminal investigations. G.A.A.R. has been introduced, tax reporting obligations have been imposed on advisers reflecting policies behind D.A.C.6 in the E.U., and a new regime to disregard foreign entities and arrangements without legal personality have been adopted. Alil Álvarez Alcalá, the founding partner of Álvarez Alcalá, in Mexico City dives into these and other new regimes.

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Insights Vol. 3 No. 2: F.A.T.C.A. 24/7

This month, Insights looks at the I.G.A. experience in Mexico; updated Form W-8BEN-E and instructions; an announcement on forthcoming regulations that will ease burdens on F.F.I.’s; new I.G.A. competent authority arrangements signed with Norway, Barbados, Romania, Spain, Italy, and Costa Rica; a new I.G.A. with St. Lucia; and the most recent list of I.G.A. partner countries.

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Final Stages of B.E.P.S. Implementation and its Effects

As the conclusion of the O.E.C.D.’s B.E.P.S. Project draws ever nearer, Rusudan Shervashidze examines domestic implementation efforts in a number of foreign countries and the unanticipated tax ramifications for multinational enterprises. In their attempts to meet these requirements, countries are making some of the most significant changes to international taxation policy that we have seen in decades.

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