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15. Exiting: Mexico

Exiting Mexico: how a company is dissolved and liquidated, the express route for small companies owned by individuals, the tax on liquidation payouts and on selling Mexican shares, the severance owed when operations close, and the tax and foreign investment deregistrations that finish the job. Each rule is tied to the official text and checked against it. For an Argentine shareholder, the Argentina Mexico income tax agreement in force since 2017 may change the tax on a sale or dividend; see The Argentine Thread guide for the Argentine side.

Investor view. A clear statutory sequence for liquidation, a known tax cost on share sales and treaty relief for most investors let capital leave Mexico as predictably as it enters, which is what keeps it coming in.

Exiting Mexico: dissolving and liquidating a company, selling the shares, and taking the capital and profits homeA Mexican company is closed in two legal stages: dissolution, recorded in the Public Registry of Commerce, then liquidation by a liquidator who pays creditors, publishes a final balance and distribute