Overview
- Mexico’s tax agency SAT, which opened its annual filing window on Wednesday, is accepting 2025 individual returns through April 30 with a prefilled portal, a “Sin clasificación” area to fix invoice errors, and a saturation calendar to avoid peak hours.
- SAT logged 599,035 returns by late Wednesday and expects more than 11.4 million filings this month, while those who skip or miss the window face fines that can reach 50,710 pesos under updated rules.
- Refunds in Mexico often arrive in under a week when taxpayers accept correct preloaded data, though the legal limit is 40 business days, and any refund of 10,001 pesos or more must be requested with an e.firma digital signature.
- The IRS set April 15 as the federal deadline for most U.S. taxpayers, with late-filing penalties of 5% of tax owed per month up to 25%, and it notes that filing extensions do not extend the time to pay.
- To ease last‑minute crunch, the IRS extended weekday hours at 200‑plus Taxpayer Assistance Centers through April 30 and added Saturday openings, as it warns California non‑filers they will forfeit 2022 refunds after April 15 with about 143,000 people averaging $680 at stake.