Evasion of $ 3 billion per month for smuggling of fuels

For the smuggling of fuels – especially diesel -, committed mainly by companies to stock General Laboratory of Petroleum Quality of CIEFSA.

According to the specialist, the call huachicol Fiscal (fuels introduced to the country without paying the corresponding taxes), is marketed at clandestine points or consumed companies that have vehicle flotals.

The former president of the Mexican Association of Service Stations Suppliers (AMPES) explained to The day That when smugglers go through customs use a different tariff fraction from those of gasoline or diesel, so they do not pay special tax and services (IEPS) or other taxes.

It is very complicated that the fuel reaches a service station because gas stations have many security mechanismssaid. One of them are volumetric controls (entry, exit and existence records in gas stations), which implies issuance of invoices and records linked to digital tax vouchers online (CFDI). It is difficult for him to arrive, but not impossibleGutiérrez Torres said.

Illegal trade exceeds service stations

He mentioned that it is easier for these smuggling products to be used to Self -consumption or that reach stations for own account. If a transport company, a line of trucks, a ranch or a company that has a considerable flotilla installs in its courtyards or somewhere else security.

He commented that these supply points do not usually have permits from the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE).

He noted that those who import these fuels look for interested companies to sell them the product, as it is 6 or 7 pesos cheaper than in gas stations. It is much more attractive than justifying VAT (Value Added Tax), which is 16 percentsaid.

They are the ones who buy that product that is entering the border and is not paying tax. He mentioned that it is estimated that there are around 20 thousand self -consumption points in the country, data greater at 13,786 gas stations until December 31, 2024. He said that the CRE has only granted about 350 permits for self -consumption, but The vast majority are in anonymity.

He stressed that monthly are around 3 billion pesos that are evading the treasury Only for this illegal practice.

However, according to data from the Ministry of Energy (Sener) in 2021 the illegal fuel market amounted to 47 million barrels and the loss for the treasury was 64 billion pesos.

Customs gap

In a decree issued in the previous six -year term, the Sener sought to stop this practice, since it identified that the import was perpetrated by private. Once a lower cost merchandise in relation to a finished oil (gasoline or diesel that does comply with the regulations) is imported, they proceed to its mixing in the transfer, intermodal, storage, distribution, distribution, sale to the public and of self -consumption.

He indicated that the Decree by which measures are established for the fight to the illicit fuel market, related to the importation of merchandise regulated by Senerpublished in October 2023, it only prevented importing mineral oils.

However, in practice, only a minimum part of what is imported is inspected in customs. He commented that when the entered liquids are analyzed, they are sent to a laboratory in Mexico City to determine what they are. When it is found that it is not the declared fuel, only the importer is asked to pay what corresponds.

The problem is that the ability to determine what is going through customs is very smallsaid.