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Newsletter: Initiative to abolish the agrarian law

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To subscribe to our newsletter click here Dear clients and friends, Please find hereunder our newsletter regarding the law initiative presented by Senator Ricardo Monreal Avila (MORENA), to abrogate the Agrarian Lawandissueinstead the Law for the Agrarian Development (“Initiative”), prepared by our team of professionals in Zozayacorrea Sahagún Arizaga Abogados y Fiscalistas. This Initiative was presented on October 23rd, 2018, and seeks to generate equal and inclusive conditions in the Mexican countryside, in order to fight poverty, improve the quality of life of people living in the countryside, and improve food supply security. Of the Initiative which consists of eleven titles, ten of them linked to substantive agrarian law, and one more, relating to agrarian justice before jurisdictional bodies, we highlight the following: Creation of new ejidos and land restitution. Prohibition of large estates, and instead to put extension limits on real property. Creation of the

Fiscal Reform Intiatives 2019

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To subscribe to our newsletter click here Dear clients and friends: Please find hereunder our newsletter regarding the fiscal reform initiatives, prepared by our team of professionals at Zozayacorrea Sahagún Arizaga Abogados y Fiscalistas. Within the plans of the new government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is the approval of several fiscal reforms, which we briefly present hereafter, in order to provide you a better understanding of their impacts in case of its approval. The most relevant initiatives are the following: I. Reforms to the Federal Fiscal Code. II. Economic Zone of the Northern Border. III. Retention of the Value Added Tax and Income Tax on Services. IV. Special Tax on Fuels Production and related Services. V. Initiatives related to Wages and Salaries. VI. Inheritance Tax. VII. Digital Services Tax. VIII. Other proposals: Reduction of Income Tax for being a sustainable company. Religious associations as grantees. Tuition Deduction. As part of

Newsletter: The draft of the guidelines for the publishing of resolutions

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NEWSLETTER REGARDING THE DRAFT OF THE GUIDELINES FOR THE PUBLISHING OF THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE PLENARY OF THE FEDERAL COMMISSION OF ECONOMIC COMPETITION To subscribe to our newsletter click here . Dear clients and friends:   Please find hereunder our newsletter regarding the extract of the Draft of the Guidelines for the Publishing of the Resolutions of the Plenary of the Federal Commission of Economic Competition, prepared by our team of professionals in Zozayacorrea Sahagún Arizaga Abogados y Fiscalistas.   On November 13th, 2018, an extract of the Draft of the Guidelines for the Publishing of the Resolutions of the Plenary of the Federal Commission of Economic Competition ("Guidelines") was published in the Official Federation Gazette ("DOF").   The purpose of these Guidelines is to establish the applicable rules and principles for the publishing of the resolutions issued by the Plenary of the Federal Commission of Economic Competition (&

Informative newsletter regarding Mexico City's new airport

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To subscribe to our newsletter click  here . Dear clients and friends: Please find hereunder our informative newsletter regarding the recent changes to Mexico City’s new airport project, prepared by our team of professionals at Zozayacorrea Sahagún Arizaga - Abogados y Fiscalistas. During the last days of October of the present year, a "national consultation" was held, in which the Mexican citizens had the opportunity to choose the future of the new airport in Mexico City (“NAICM”). This consultation had a participation of a little over 1% of the registered voters in the country, that is to say, less than one million citizens went out to participate in the consultation, to which the majority voted for the option to cancel the ongoing project in the Texcoco area, to instead develop two runway areas at the Santa Lucia military base, nearby to Mexico City, as well as reconditioning the current airport in Mexico City and the city of Toluca, so that the three

Informative Bulletin: Electricity rate increases

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Informative bulletin regarding electricity rate increases and the legal actions that can be exercised against its collection. To subscribe to our newsletter click  here . Dear clients and friends, Below please find our newsletter regarding the increase of electric supply rates, prepared by our Administrative Litigation practice group at Zozayacorrea Sahagun Arizaga - Abogados y Fiscalistas. Derived from the Energy Reform of December 20, 2013, the Articles 138 and 144 of the Electricity Industry Law established that the Regulatory Energy Commission ("CRE") would issue methodologies through administrative provisions of general nature to determine (i) calculations and adjustments of the rates for the services of transmission, distribution, operation of suppliers of basic services and related services not included on the electricity market, as well as the rates of the basic energy supply; and (ii) calculation and adjustment of the recoverable income of ba

Our new contact information

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To all our friends, I hope this letter finds you well. Besides greeting you, the purpose of this statement is to notify you that I have made the decision to form an independent firm, conformed by my work team, along with a group of prominent lawyers out of prestigious law firms of Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Ciudad Juarez. This decision was motivated by certain limitations to develop and render services to our clients, both in Mexico and in other jurisdictions, derived from regulatory restrictions applicable to auditors and attorneys who concur in the same organization, as is the case of the firm in which until a few days ago I had participation as a Partner, and from which I separated in friendly, transparent terms, which allow us to continue serving our clients within a frame of trust and certainty, strictly in what we know how to do best; provide highly specialized legal services. That said, with the background of more than 30 years of experience as a busines

Recognition by USMBA

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I have been recognized by the U.S.-Mexico Bar Association, where they paid tribute to the previous leaders of this organization, along with Hugo Hernández-Ojeda and Elizabeth J. Vann. Thank you very much!