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No. You see the full invoice one more time on the payment screen, and nothing is charged until you confirm there. The $5,000 formation fee is a one-time charge. Anything recurring you selected, compliance, payroll, or the local address renewal, bills on its own monthly or annual cadence and is shown next to the line.

We start on your S. de R.L. right away and open the entity in your Commenda dashboard with a named point of contact rather than a ticket queue. The order of work is fixed: legal drafting of the incorporation deed, registration with the Public Registry of Commerce and the Foreign Investment Registry, RFC tax registration with SAT through a legal representative, then the corporate bank account. You get the full document checklist up front and status on each step as it clears.

Shareholder information, the corporate name and corporate purpose, the capital stock, the company address, and your corporate management structure, including the appointment of managers and corporate signatories. If a shareholder is a company, we also need its Certificate of Formation or Articles, Certificate of Legal Standing, Bylaws, and Power of Attorney appointment, plus the signing officer's ID and TIN. The first four have to be apostilled in the parent's home country and translated by an expert translator, and that translation is included in your package. You get the checklist once, in one place, at the start.

Plan for about 10 weeks end to end, and that covers three things: incorporation, RFC tax registration, and the bank account. Mexico is one of the longer setups we run because those steps run in sequence, not in parallel, and the company needs an RFC before a bank will open an account. SAT controls the RFC clock and each bank controls its own onboarding, so neither is a date we can compress. The 10 weeks assumes your information and documents come back promptly, which is the one lever you hold.

Yes. Every government and filing fee for the formation sits inside the $5,000, along with the Public Registry of Commerce and Foreign Investment Registry filings, RFC registration with SAT, the Power of Attorney if you would rather not travel to Mexico, translation of your documents, the bank account opening, and year one of your local address. No registry invoice arrives separately afterwards. The exception is the apostille and Power of Attorney fees charged in your parent company's own country, which vary by country, so we cannot carry them as a fixed line.

No. Mexican law does not require a local director. What it does require in practice is a legal representative with in-country standing, because RFC registration with SAT and the bank account opening both have to be done through one. A foreign individual can only act in that role with a Mexican residency visa, an RFC, and a CURP, so in most cases a local representative is appointed for statutory purposes instead, through the Power of Attorney inside your formation package at no separate charge.

No. Mexican law requires a real registered address, and SAT, the banks, and the registry all reject virtual ones. The address is what authorities use to verify and contact the company, and RFC registration and government filings both depend on it. Year one is inside your $5,000, and from year two the local address service renews at $2,000 a year. If you would rather lease your own premises, even a very small office, that works, and we can help you find the most cost-effective option.

Yes, and it is part of the formation package rather than an add-on. A Mexican corporate bank account is mandatory, and Mexican banks require in-country representation, so the account is opened through your appointed legal representative. Sequencing matters: the company has to exist and hold an RFC before the account can open, which is why banking sits at the end of the roughly 10 week timeline rather than alongside incorporation.

The $5,000 covers formation itself: the two registry filings, RFC registration, the Power of Attorney, bank account opening, document translation, and year one of your local address. Everything ongoing is priced separately. Local address renewal is $2,000 a year from year two. Tax and accounting compliance is $500 a month for 1 to 20 transactions, $700 for 21 to 50, and $900 for 50 to 100, or $2,500 a year for the Tax Filings only plan if the company will be quiet. Hiring adds a one-time $750 IMSS and ISN enrollment, a $100 labor compliance package, and $450 payroll setup, then monthly payroll per employee at $55 (1 to 3 employees), $45 (4 to 10), $35 (11 to 15), and $25 (16 to 20), with terminations at $450 each, billed only when one happens. Above 100 transactions a month or 21 employees we price with you directly, and the apostille and Power of Attorney fees in your parent's country plus the share capital you fund sit outside the package.

Because Mexican obligations attach to the company, not to its revenue. Once the company holds an RFC, government tax filings are mandatory whether or not you have invoiced anyone. The Tax Filings only plan at $2,500 a year exists for exactly that case: the mandatory SAT filings, bank reconciliation, an income and expense report, and a bi-annual balance sheet and income statement. Once you start selling, VAT (IVA) has to be reconciled and filed on an ongoing basis, which is where the transaction-based plans come in.

Yes. Nothing here locks you into a bundle. Compliance and payroll only start to matter once you actually invoice or hire in Mexico, so you can switch them on in the month that happens and off again later. Payroll bills against your real headcount and the per-employee rate falls as you grow, so adding or removing people adjusts the price instead of needing a new plan.

Your entity gets a compliance calendar built from its own details: jurisdiction, entity type, fiscal year end. Every Mexican obligation it owes appears there with a status, covering SAT tax filings, VAT (IVA), the bi-annual balance sheet and income statement, and payroll declarations across IMSS and ISN. Reminders go out by email ahead of each due date, so nobody has to remember to open the platform. We file whatever is in your plan and the confirmation lands in the same dashboard that holds your other entities.