In 2022, some Mexican employers told their staff to bring a Constancia de Situación Fiscal, a certificate of tax status issued by the tax authority SAT.
According to the tax news site El Contribuyente, some companies warned that workers who did not deliver it would not be paid. Hundreds of taxpayers “hicieron filas en las oficinas del SAT por varias horas” (stood in line at SAT offices for hours). (Video in Spanish.)
In July 2022, SAT head Raquel Buenrostro said that the agency had never asked for the certificate, according to IDC Online. The certificate contains data, such as the postal code, that the SAT would check on payroll receipts.