Collect tax in Mexico

Learn how to use Stripe Tax to calculate, collect, and report tax in Mexico.

In Mexico, Stripe only supports VAT for digital services. In Stripe, these are called digital products. You must also be a remote seller with no physical presence in the country to collect this tax on Stripe.

Remote sellers providing digital goods or electronically supplied services (digital products) to Mexican customers must register for VAT purposes within 30 days of the first sale to a customer located in Mexico. There are no registration thresholds or simplified registration procedures. Non-residents must appoint a legal representative and establish a tax domicile in Mexico.

Threshold: 1 transaction

Time frame: 12 months

Included transactions: Sales of digital goods or electronically supplied services (digital products)

When to register for tax collection

Use the Thresholds tab to get insights about your potential tax registration obligations in Mexico. Stripe also notifies you with email and Dashboard alerts when you need to register to collect tax. Learn more about how the monitoring tool works.

How to register

You must be a remote seller with no physical presence in Mexico to collect this tax on Stripe.

Find more information on how to register for VAT in Mexico on the government website (Spanish).

After you’ve registered to collect tax in Mexico, add your registrations to Stripe in the Registrations tab in the Dashboard. This turns on tax calculation and collection in Stripe for your transactions in Mexico.

Learn more about how to add your registration in the Dashboard.

How we calculate taxes

We only support calculations for digital products (non-physical items or services that are delivered, given, or rendered electronically) in Mexico. Stripe doesn’t calculate tax for any product not using a digital product tax code.

View the list of supported digital product tax codes. To calculate taxes in Mexico, make sure you have assigned a tax code to each of your products.

How to report and file your taxes

Stripe provides reports of your completed tax transactions. To access these reports, go to the Registrations tab. Learn more about the different types of reports.

You’re responsible for filing and remitting your taxes to Mexico. Stripe doesn’t file taxes on your behalf.