Prepare Yourself For 16% Tax Added Onto Food And Medicine
The PRI got their way, and IVA the 16% National Sales Tax has been added to FOOD and MEDICINE. I have already noticed some price increases in other industries (mostly tourist oriented).
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This appears to be completely false and misleading according to reports to which you provided links.
It wasn't so FALSE AND MISLEADING on the supermarket cash register tags, and Farmacias Similares receipts sitting 18" from my laptop. Lettuce, eggs, meat, and tomatoes were taxed. Metoprolol, and verapamil medications for the heart were taxed.
So much for that. ADUANA (Also known as Hacienda, SHCP, SAT) blew it. They sent out official notification and businesses started adding the tax. The public went ballistic. The tax was rescinded without a damned word from Hacienda.
But I have the register receipts and the printing is crystal clear.
In a nutshell, now at this moment there is no tax on groceries or medicines. Purchases yesterday verified this.
I am damned sensitive to penalizing the poor. The government may want to continue to institute restrictions so fly-in tourists are emphasized to come, stay a week, blow ten grand then get the hell out, but it's the overland tourist that helps spread meager but important money where Cantcun, Puerto Vallarta and Cabo San Loco tourist dollars never reach.
As a voter, my opinion is that if the PRI pushes the food and medicine tax, the red, white and green circle with the letters PRI will become as extinct as the dodo.
Using 12.8 to 1 USA Dollar to peso exchange rate MAGNA, meaning regular now costs 3.56 DOLLARS PER GALLON.
But when I wrote the OP, the tax was in force and being collected. Mexico is like that. A month or two before the PASSPORTS ONLY law went into effect, Tijuana, Tecate and Mexicali immigration demanded passports, no birth certificates allowed. When I posted that online, the doubters sprang to their feet. I guess the joke is on them.
It's too easy for armchair pundits located thousands of miles from the Mexican border to become "online experts". It's different when you encounter reality face-to-face.
It wasn't so FALSE AND MISLEADING on the supermarket cash register tags, and Farmacias Similares receipts sitting 18" from my laptop. Lettuce, eggs, meat, and tomatoes were taxed. Metoprolol, and verapamil medications for the heart were taxed.
So much for that. ADUANA (Also known as Hacienda, SHCP, SAT) blew it. They sent out official notification and businesses started adding the tax. The public went ballistic. The tax was rescinded without a damned word from Hacienda.
But I have the register receipts and the printing is crystal clear.
In a nutshell, now at this moment there is no tax on groceries or medicines. Purchases yesterday verified this.
I am damned sensitive to penalizing the poor. The government may want to continue to institute restrictions so fly-in tourists are emphasized to come, stay a week, blow ten grand then get the hell out, but it's the overland tourist that helps spread meager but important money where Cantcun, Puerto Vallarta and Cabo San Loco tourist dollars never reach.
As a voter, my opinion is that if the PRI pushes the food and medicine tax, the red, white and green circle with the letters PRI will become as extinct as the dodo.
Using 12.8 to 1 USA Dollar to peso exchange rate MAGNA, meaning regular now costs 3.56 DOLLARS PER GALLON.
But when I wrote the OP, the tax was in force and being collected. Mexico is like that. A month or two before the PASSPORTS ONLY law went into effect, Tijuana, Tecate and Mexicali immigration demanded passports, no birth certificates allowed. When I posted that online, the doubters sprang to their feet. I guess the joke is on them.
It's too easy for armchair pundits located thousands of miles from the Mexican border to become "online experts". It's different when you encounter reality face-to-face.
