Legal Framework
From The Report: Mexico 2018
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This chapter provides an overview of Mexico’s legal framework, covering a range of topics from fiscal reforms to national water laws to ensure sustainable development. In addition, it features a viewpoint by César Maillard Canudas, Managing Partner, Maillard, Cerbón, Canudas, Argumedo, Palma y Asociados.

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Water matter: Regulations are being revisited to ensure comprehensive public policy for a key natural resource
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Water is a key resource in Mexico, which makes its legal management something of a national security interest. Article 27 of the constitution establishes the country’s water ownership regime and sets out a number of legal aspects. The National Waters Law of 1992 gets its denomination from constitutional Article 27, which regulates the waters that are deemed to be national property. This was an inclusive law in which experts, users, civil organisations, public servants and legislators participated…

Analysis

Ongoing reform: Changes to the tax system needed for sustainable growth
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Throughout the 20th century Mexico made steady progress in its efforts to establish and develop a robust fiscal regime. In 1925 Mario Pani, then-minister of finance, introduced a preliminary series of reforms to the system, and subsequently implemented a second set in 1932. The next major change came in the 1970s and 1980s, when a new tax system was pushed through by ministers of finance and attorneys general. This new system abandoned the existing schedular system and introduced a value-added…

Viewpoint

Labour justice: César Maillard Canudas, Managing Partner, Maillard, Cerbón, Canudas, Argumedo, Palma y Asociados, on labour reform
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Viewpoint:César Maillard Canudas The macroeconomic uncertainty facing Mexico in 2018 creates challenges for the country’s labour market. With both external and internal challenges, it is more important than ever for the country to pass legislation to help its labour market grow and mature so that it can provide a wider variety of jobs with respectable salaries. Since the publication of the presidential decree in February 2017 that reformed Article 123 of the Constitution on labour justice,…