Sheinbaum proposes fuel tax tracking system to combat evasion and theft
The government will ask the tax authority to monitor the special excise tax on fuels from import through retail sale, without raising the tax rate itself.
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The proposal aims to close gaps in tax collection by creating visibility across the entire fuel distribution network rather than increasing the burden on any single actor. The mechanism will track the IEPS from the moment it is paid at import through distribution and retail, handled technically by Mexico's tax authority, the SAT.
Mexico's fuel market has long leaked revenue to tax evasion and huachicol, the illegal siphoning and resale of gasoline. The special excise tax on production and services, known as IEPS, applies to fuel at multiple points in the supply chain.
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Implementation details will emerge when the Economic Package is formally presented. Observable change would come from reported compliance rates and recovered evasion revenue once tracking begins. The system's effectiveness depends on whether the SAT can integrate import records with downstream sales data and whether it identifies the beneficiaries of leaked fuel sales.