##  [Environmental Taxes in Mexico: Obligations, Risks, and Strategies for Companies](/en_GB/new/environmental-taxes-mexico-obligations-risks-and-strategies-companies) 

# Environmental Taxes in Mexico: Obligations, Risks, and Strategies for Companies





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**Environmental taxes are state-level levies aimed at mitigating the environmental impact of several industrial activities, such as raw material extraction, pollutant emissions, and waste management. Given their regulatory complexity and diversity across the states, companies must implement proper diagnostics, compliance plans, and legal defense strategies to avoid financial, operational, and reputational risks.**





Environmental taxes are taxes imposed on activities deemed by authorities to have a negative environmental impact, such as:

- Material extraction
- Emissions of atmospheric pollutants
- Discharge of contaminants into soil, subsoil, or water
- Waste storage or disposal
- Transportation of materials

As such, a thorough legal and technical assessment, along with a tailored compliance and/or legal defense strategy, is essential to avoid non-compliance and resulting sanctions.

Each Mexican state must be analyzed individually, as they retain autonomy in designing and applying environmental taxes. Accordingly, each tax may differ in structure, regulation, and calculation methods.

In [**this document**](https://www.garrigues.com/sites/default/files/noticias/files/mexico_urbanismo-y-medioambiente_en.pdf), we address what activities are subject to environmental taxes, what implications environmental taxes could entail, the Mexican States with environmental taxes, the internal action plan for companies in Mexico and the key sectors subject to environmental taxes.









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