In the context of the latest regulatory changes in foreign trade, Antonio Martínez Dagnino, head of the Tax Administration Service (SAT) , and Andre Foullon Van Lissum, head of the National Customs Agency of Mexico (ANAM), made a supervisory visit to the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) to verify compliance with the new tax and customs provisions.
Officials highlighted inter-institutional coordination to facilitate foreign trade, especially in light of recent regulations on the matter, according to a press release.
These rules “establish new requirements and obligations for e-commerce platforms, as well as for parcel or courier companies that import goods to Mexico, known as de minimis.”
This is “to limit the abuse of this scheme as a strategy to avoid paying the general import tax and the Value Added Tax (VAT),” the statement said.
He also recalled that new audit and review programmes were launched last October to ensure compliance with all these measures to detect and punish smuggling.
According to the SAT and ANAM, the aim is to strengthen tax collection, reduce tax evasion and avoidance, and combat corruption.
It is worth remembering that the system known as de minimis facilitates the entry of products into the country without paying certain taxes. Given this, the recent modifications to this scheme announced by the administration of US President Joe Biden generate a wave of uncertainty on both sides of the border, affecting low-value imports from China and Mexican logistics operations that depend on this system.
In this sense, while its northern neighbor tightens the rules, Mexico faces the task of adjusting its commercial and customs structure to compete more fairly, according to the Ministry of Economy (SE) .
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