Sellers on Meike Duo have probably all noticed this news recently.

If you’ve been in the cross-border e-commerce business for more than two years, you’ve likely noticed that competition in the European and American markets is getting fiercer, and profit margins are getting thinner.

Ad bidding on Amazon U.S. has doubled, VAT compliance costs on Amazon Europe remain high, and profit margins in Southeast Asia are razor-thin. More and more sellers are turning their attention to a booming new market—Latin America—and the first stop in Latin America is Mexico.

Mexico is Latin America’s second-largest economy and Amazon’s largest marketplace in the region. However, what many sellers don’t realize is that Mexico’s tax compliance requirements are more complex than those in Europe, and the consequences of non-compliance are far more severe.

In today’s article, we’ll cover all the key points of VAT registration in Mexico in one go.

Recently, many sellers expanding into the Mexican market have begun to focus on one issue:

The platform requires RFC tax ID verification. If the linked tax ID does not match the actual business entity, what are the consequences?

In particular, for sellers operating Mexican overseas warehouses and local sales models, many companies may encounter the following situations during the early stages of their business in an effort to get up and running quickly:

* The entity registered as the store owner is not the same as the entity listed on the RFC;

* Use an RFC from another entity to establish a binding;

* Company information, tax information, and platform data have not been synchronized for a long time;

* Multiple accounts are associated with the same tax entity.

When the business was smaller, these issues might not have become apparent right away.

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