Tax: Controversy
Latin America Guide 2025 : Mexico
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Provided by Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes, S.C.
Our Tax team guides corporations and individuals, both foreign and domestic, in assessing the tax impact of business decisions, and offers cost-effective and practical assistance with complex state, federal and international tax issues and disputes. We have deep, across-the-board experience on which clients rely to design and implement transactions and business structures to minimize tax expenses. We help clients to strategize, mitigate risk and if necessary, defend their interests in court. Our tax team has extensive experience in M&A, corporate tax, real estate tax, capital gains and loss planning, purchase price allocation, succession planning and family limited partnerships, structured finance, financial instruments, capital markets transactions, energy tax issues, tax indemnity agreements, tax shelter issues, off-balance sheet financing, tax controversies, international tax and transfer pricing.
Team
Our Firm has one of the leading tax teams active on the Mexican market. The team is formed by a group of highly-trained professionals, including certified accountants, that offer stand-alone tax advice, and regularly provide support to other practice areas of the firm, particularly in the context of complex, cross-border M&A transactions.
Clients
Key clients of the Tax practice operate in sectors such as Energy, Infrastructure, TMT, Real Estate, Retail, Manufacturing and Financial Services.
Chambers Review
Esteemed Mexican law firm Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes benefits from its front-running tax controversy legal team and is recognised for its prowess in resolving disputes with the Mexican tax authorities. The legal department is also adept at assisting clients with complex tax planning and structuring. The Mexico City-based legal division boasts renowned practitioners who are well versed in tending to clients from the energy, natural resources, media, and consumer products sectors with tax audits, administrative procedures and related tax litigation.
Work Highlights
- Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes' Mexico City-based department provided advisory services tothe Centro de los Derechos del Migrante on the tax implications of travel expenses and per diems for employees.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes' lawyers handle our matters excellently. Their level of service, responsiveness and attention is very professional and of high quality."
"Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes has formed a team of professionals with the experience and skills to analyse and tend to any tax matter. They are always attentive to our requests and needs."
"Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes' lawyers handle our matters excellently. Their level of service, responsiveness and attention is very professional and of high quality."
"Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes has formed a team of professionals with the experience and skills to analyse and tend to any tax matter. They are always attentive to our requests and needs."
Notable Practitioners
Distinguished partner Enrique Ramírez Figueroa elicits solid recognition for his extensive experience advising on both controversies and non-contentious tax mandates in Mexico. He is widely recognised as a key tax litigator.
"Enrique Ramírez Figueroa is one of the best tax litigators in Mexico, and is really out of the ordinary. He considers business implications in the strategies he draws."
"Enrique Ramírez Figueroa has great experience and a broad knowledge of the market and business environment in Mexico, which allows him to give us very precise and timely advice."
Established partner Nora Morales continues to garner appreciation from market insiders for her practice as a tax litigator in Mexico. She enjoys solid expertise assisting with tax disputes and matters of international taxation.
"Nora Morales has a very broad and sophisticated knowledge of Mexican tax legislation and is always up to date on our issues, which allows us to receive excellent advice from her."
Associate-to-watch Swad Marie Abbud Chávez enjoys client endorsement for her experience in tax controversies in Mexico.
"Swad Marie Abbud Chávez has a lot of technical knowledge and is very dedicated to her work. She is attentive, proactive and follows up on our matters."
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