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Mexico

Von Wobeser y Sierra’s head of tax shares best practices for resolving tax controversy and touts his firm’s founding partner as an exemplar of legal practice
The EU defended its ‘sovereign right’ to impose the tax in the face of US tariff threats; in other news, the US deputy Treasury secretary resigned after just five months
Rafael Tena tells ITR about the ‘crazy’ Mexican market, ditching the hourly rate, and refusing to grow his fledgling firm in an ‘unstructured way’
The US president did not have the authority to impose the tariffs, a court ruled; in other news, Fried Frank and Crowe Ireland made key tax hires
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  • Sponsored by Creel
    Mexico’s tax system lacks clarity on the status of cryptocurrencies. Treating them as either property or currency each have their own specific implications, writes Omar Zuñiga, partner, and Eduardo Brandt, senior associate, at Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez.
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    Mexico’s alternative finance market has grown significantly. Regulators now face the challenge of setting rules that allow the industry to flourish, while in parallel trying to ensure they will have sufficient powers to adequately supervise such a constantly evolving space.
  • Sponsored by Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa
    During 2017 and 2018 the Mexican Stock Exchange witnessed the placement of securities issued by the first two Mexican special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). Alberto Alvarez and Moisés Gutiérrez of Chevez, Ruiz, Zamarripa y Cia., address some aspects of the operation of said companies, as well as the tax implications that could arise for investors as a result of participating in a Mexican SPAC.