Mexico Insight

There is a growing trend among expats worldwide—including those who reside in Mexico: staying home for six months. Some people want to leave behind the cold winters in their home country and avoid the sultry humidity prevalent during the high summer months at most of Mexico’s beach locations between May and October. Others want to enjoy [...]

English is the present-day ‘lingua franca’; a situation that has come to pass, in good measure, by the global influence of the Anglo-Saxon culture over the last few hundred years.  However, English has succeeded as a language for another reason: its enormous flexibility. The language is bequeathed with a mixture of Romantic and Germanic languages, and [...]

On January 1st 2010, Mexico’s national sales tax rate, commonly referred to by its initials IVA (Impuesto al Valor Agregado), or Value Added Tax, rose by one percent, to 16%. Price tags at retail stores across Mexico include this sum, so the amount you see advertised for an item is the amount you pay; distinct [...]