What is the Carta Porte complement?

As of the year 2022, the Carta Porte Supplement comes into force. Learn more about this mandatory requirement.

What is the Consignment Note Complement?

It is a digital tax document created to go along with goods or merchandise that are moved from one place to another by federal means, in order to prove their legitimacy.
In other words, an electronic invoice is generated for the transfer operations carried out by the carriers of goods and merchandise. Said obligation to issue the electronic invoice is applicable for transfers by land, sea, air and rail. If they do not carry out this compliance, the organizations may be accused of smuggling before the authority.

Goal

The main objective of the Carte Porte Complement is to prevent the smuggling of products, which generates unfair competition with the tax payer.

What information does the Consignment Note include?

The Bill of Lading must include information on the goods or merchandise, as well as the origin and destination, means of transportation and the cost of freight.

Some activities that are integrated into the complement are the transfer of securities, messaging, distributors at the point of sale, cargo transportation, etc.

Benefits

According to the publication of the Government of Mexico, the Carta Porte offers the following benefits

• Identifies the goods in detail to be certain of what is being transported and the routes it follows.
• The origin and destination of the goods are known, for random verification cases that allow anticipating risks or threats in the transfer.
• It provides information to establish strategies that guarantee traffic safety on the different routes.
• It has elements that allow verifying the operations carried out by the people who participate in the transfer of merchandise.
• It provides elements to the public agencies responsible for the surveillance and control of the transit routes to verify the merchandise and prove its legal stay and/or possession during its transfer.
• Strengthens formal commerce, fights informality and smuggling.

 

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