Tax accountant

I am also in the hunt for a new accountant. Been using Sonya in West Ajijic.

CanuckBob wrote:All the booking companies (VRBO, AirBnB, Booking.Com, etc.) withhold and submit the taxes for me now so I didn't think I need to file anything

Bob, SAT declarations need to be filed every month- that the booking companies withhold taxes has nothing to do with that. Also, they do not withhold all the taxes. They release 8% of the IVA and all of the state occupancy taxes charged to the guest, to the host, and the accountant has to account for those on the monthly declaration. The accountant then deducts any IVA you paid out on facturas for your expenses from what you owe in IVA for your bookings, as well as deducting any of your expenses for which you have facturas from your income.

Hope you find a competent accountant. I am lucky to have a great one here in Sayulita, totally fluent in English who explained all this to me.

Bob, my Airbnb rental is a private room/bath in my home. I most certainly have to pay IVA on my rentals and Airbnb and the other rental platforms charge the guests IVA, of which they submit 8% and which you are required to submit the other 8%. (Airbnb releases the 8% to hosts so that you can deduct any IVA you paid out in expenses on the monthly statements.

Are your listings under your own platform profile, or under your property manager's? If you have access to your reservation details, you can clearly see that guests have IVA added to the cost of the rental and that Airbnb withholds half to submit to SAT and releases the other half to the host to account for and pay.

It isn't that I "choose" to remit 8% IVA, it's that we are required to. You received that 8% in IVA that the booking platforms charge the guest- it has to be accounted for. SAT receives that information fron the booking platforms on the "Facturify" monthly statements. You may find out when you get a new accountant that the previous accountant was incorrect and it will catch up with you. (I hope not)

And they never received IVA from me, either, until the platforms were forced by SAT to apply taxes to bookings. That changed the whole ball game.

What you may not be understanding is that the IVA is charged to the guest, not the host. We are just required to account for it and pass it on to SAT. You can't receive tax money paid by guests and simply keep it as if it were your earnings.

The whole reason SAT started making the booking platforms charge taxes is because so many people were doing rentals without paying tax. Which is illegal.

It seems weird that Airbnb would deal with the Mex. taxes differently for different hosts, but who knows. I only use Airbnb (whose customer service is a clueless PITA to deal with if you have an issue, which I hardly ever do, as I get really great guests) because you can't list a private room homeshare on VRBO and booking.com only allows Instant Book. I want to exchange a message or two before deciding whether to accept a guest, since they are essentially my roommates, sharing my kitchen, during their stay.

Mine has 13 characters.

Anybody here find an Mexican accountant at lakeside yet?