Guides for investing in Mexico.
Practical answers to the questions every foreign investor asks — written by the team that handles them daily.
The Law Does Not Say in Which Sectors Cash Stops Being an Option. The Ministry Decides in Fifteen Business Days.
Mexico's new payments bill lets the Ministry of Finance designate sectors where digital payment is the only admissible form of payment. No criteria, no catalogue, no penalty regime, and thirty business days to the rules.
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Your Mexican Acquisition May Need Permission. And If the Authority Says Nothing, the Answer Is No.
Mexico's bill creates prior national security clearance for foreign acquisitions above 49%. The five categories read from a plant floor, the 180-day threshold gap, and the SPA clauses that change.
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The Number That Decides Your 2027 Cash Flow Is Already in a Return You Filed
Mexico's 2027 Economic Package caps corporate deductions for the first time. Two construction defects, the 0.999% tax floor, and the decisions that expire before the law passes.
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Mexico Rewrote the Rulebook Around Your NOMs. It Is Already in Force.
A new Reglamento to the Ley de Infraestructura de la Calidad took effect on 7 September 2026. Your conformity assessment documents survive. The accreditation standing behind them has three years, and it belongs to a third party you do not control.
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In a Mexican SOFOM, a Compliance Failure Is a Tax Event
Lending in Mexico requires no authorization from the Federal Government. But only a company with a current registration counts as a sociedad financiera de objeto múltiple, for all legal purposes. And four tax regimes hang from that registration.
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Mexico Does Not Ask Your Legal Representative to Live There. It Asks for More Than That.
There is no residency requirement. There is a requirement that the person hold a Mexican taxpayer number and a current electronic signature in his own name, and that he answer for a company he may never visit.
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A Deadline You Cannot Meet Yourself Closes September 18. Your Power Supplier Has to Meet It.
Two Acuerdos, two filing windows, and a deadline the regulation itself declares cannot be extended.
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You Are Not a Regulated Entity. Mexico's New AML Rules Still Reach You.
What changed in Mexico's anti-money-laundering regime between July 2025 and August 2026 — and why it lands on structures the statute never listed.
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The Water Volume You Are Not Using
Mexican law can declare partial caducidad of a water concession after two years of partial non-use. What the August 2026 Regulation changed, and when.
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What Mexico's Water Reform Took Away From Industrial Concession Holders
Mexico's July 2026 water regularization program does not cover industrial users. What the December 2025 amendments to Article 24 changed, and the deadlines.
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The IMMEX Program: A Practical Guide for Foreign Manufacturers
How Mexico’s manufacturing-for-export program lets you import machinery and inputs on a duty-deferred basis — and what it takes to qualify and stay compliant.
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Energy and Water Permits: The Critical Path of an Industrial Launch
Power interconnection and water rights routinely take longer than building the plant. How to sequence them so they don’t become your bottleneck.
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S.A. de C.V. or S. de R.L. de C.V.? Incorporating Your Mexican Subsidiary
The two entity types virtually every foreign investor chooses between, the differences that actually matter, and the incorporation checklist end to end.
Read the guide →Industrial Real Estate in Mexico: Lease, Buy, and the Due Diligence That Protects You
What to verify before signing for land or a building in Mexico — and the classic traps foreign investors fall into.
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The Compliance Baseline Every Foreign-Owned Mexican Entity Needs
The obligations that apply from day one — corporate, anti-money-laundering, data protection — and how to cover them without building a bureaucracy.
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Bank Accounts for a Foreign-Owned Mexican Company: What to Expect
Why opening an account is often the slowest step of a Mexico landing, what banks actually ask for, and how to prepare so it never blocks your operation.
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The Tax Setup of a Mexican Subsidiary: From RFC to Your First VAT Refund
The registrations and monthly rhythm your entity enters the moment it exists — and how to design the setup so cash never gets trapped.
Read the guide →Protect Your Brand in Mexico Before You Land
Mexico is first-to-file: whoever registers first owns the mark. Filing early costs little; recovering a squatted brand costs years.
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Legal Project Management: Run Your Mexico Landing Like a Project
A soft landing has dozens of legal workstreams with hidden dependencies. Treating it as a project — scope, timeline, one coordinator — is what keeps the date.
Read the guide →Contracts That Hold Up in Mexico: A Field Guide
The agreements a new operation signs in its first year — and the clauses that decide how enforceable they really are.
Read the guide →The Monthly Life of a Mexican Entity: Accounting Obligations Explained
CFDI invoices, electronic accounting, monthly filings — the compliance rhythm your finance team inherits with the tax ID, explained without jargon.
Read the guide →Visas and Work Authorization for Your Foreign Team in Mexico
Which immigration status your expatriates actually need, the employer registration that comes first, and the timelines to build into your staffing plan.
Read the guide →EHS in Mexico: Why the Risk Is Not Always in the Permit
A plant can hold every authorization and still be one inspection away from a shutdown. What a regulatory-exposure diagnostic looks at — and why prevention costs less than a stopped line.
Read the guide →What a guide cannot tell you
A guide gives you the rule. It cannot tell you whether it reaches you.
Every note on this page describes a rule that lands differently depending on how your operation is built — the state, the sector, the permits you hold, the year you incorporated, the corporate purpose in your bylaws. Describe that outline and a lawyer will tell you which of these rules reach your structure and which do not.
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