Although technically tourists can recover what they paid in Mexican sales taxes, the process is so complicated that firms that specialize in this field, such as Tax Refund México, Global Refund México, Express Tax Refund and Premier Tax Free, all have given up trying. Part of the problem is not only that these firms all took a cut of any refunds granted, but that bureaucracy made the task difficult. The tax-back program was designed to encourage retail shopping on the part of tourists. No one seems to have noticed is that the main reason Mexicans travel abroad is to shop.
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Jimm Budd
Reporting From Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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