Mexico
Payroll, tax, and labor-law updates for Mexico.
Equal Pay in Mexico Moves From Principle to Obligation: The 2024–2026 Gender-Pay Reforms
For decades, Mexican labor law contained a line that almost everyone agreed with and almost no one was audited on: equal work deserves equal pay. Article 86 of the Ley Federal del Trabajo said it...
Greg Miaskiewicz
CEO & Co-Founder
Mexico's Payroll Tax Is Rising, One State at a Time: The 2025–2026 ISN Increases
A company with a warehouse in one Mexican state, a sales office in another, and stores in a third pays the Impuesto Sobre Nóminas, the state payroll tax, separately in each one, at whatever rate that...
Niko Nurmentaus
Product Lead
Mexico's 2026 Employment Subsidy: A Small Credit With Three Ways to Get It Wrong
The subsidio para el empleo is one of the smallest numbers on a Mexican payslip and one of the easiest to compute incorrectly. It is a federal credit that reduces the income tax (ISR) withheld from...
Mehmood Deshmukh
CTO & Co-Founder
What Counts as Salary Now: Mexico's SBC Expansion for Cash, Food and Housing Benefits
The Salario Base de Cotización (SBC) is the single most consequential number in Mexican payroll. It is the base from which most of social security is calculated, and it feeds several contributions at...
Mehmood Deshmukh
CTO & Co-Founder
