ARTICLE 2: CLASSIFICATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS

     

     

    Contributions are classified into taxes, social security, improvements, and rights contributions, which are defined as follows:

  • Taxes are the contributions established by law that must be paid by individuals and legal entities that are in a legal situation or in fact provided by it and that are different from those indicated in sections II, III and IV of this article.
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  • Social security contributions are the contributions established by law in charge of people who are replaced by the State in the fulfillment of obligations established by the law in matter of social security or to people who benefit in a special way from the social security services provided by the same state.
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  • Contributions for improvements are those established in the Law in charge of individuals and legal entities who directly benefit from public works.
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  • Also considered as rights are the contributions established in the Law for the use or exploitation of goods of the public domain of the Nation, as well as for receiving services provided by the State in its functions of public law, except when they are provided by decentralized agencies or deconcentrated bodies when In the latter case, these are considerations that are not provided for in the Federal Taxpayer Rights Law (Ley Federal de Derechos del Contribuyente). Contributions made by decentralized public bodies for rendering exclusive services of the State.
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    When decentralized agencies are those that provide the social security referred to in section II, the corresponding contributions shall have the nature of social security contributions.

    Surcharges, sanctions, execution expenses (CFF: Art. 150) and the compensation referred to in the seventh paragraph of article 21 of this Code (CFF: Art. 21) they are accessories of the contributions and participate in their nature of these. Provided that this Code refers only to contributions, the accessories will not be understood as including, with the exception of the provisions of article 1. (CFF: Art. 1)