MEXICO CITY (Notimex) – Tax evasion associated with the use of illegal software in Mexico is estimated at more than 2,000 million pesos between 2009 and 2014, according to a study by the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP).
The study by the UDLAP at the request of the Tax Administration Service (SAT) estimates that the total value of legal software market amounts to almost 30,000 million pesos.
Of this amount, illegal software market represents 15%, ie 4.577 billion pesos in 2014, and avoidance associated with the illegal use of these programs is estimated at over 2,000 million pesos between 2009 and 2014.
the director of the UDLAP Consultants, Juan Manuel San Martin, reported that a sample of 1,006 companies surveyed in the country, 32% of those using illegal software.
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In presenting the study, he said the Norton antivirus is the package more installed illegally, and calculated that a “pirate” software is between 40 and 50% cheaper than a legal one.
Before the rector of the UDLAP, Luis Ernesto Derbez, and the general manager of Planning SAT, Adrian Guarneros said that the main reasons for the illegal use of software in the country are ignorance, price of these packages and easy to acquire.
said that the degree of illegality was 15.3% for total installed software and 40.13% corresponds to the degree of illegality of companies in flagrante delicto or use of illegal software.
He explained that tax evasion associated with the use of illegal software in Mexico is because the companies that produce these packages legally forgone revenue by lower legal consumption.
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The director of the UDLAP Consultants warned that companies that create jobs and invest in a formal way they look away when they stop selling 4,500 million pesos annually.
To combat this crime, recommended that within the new bids or purchases made by the Government to ensure that all contracted companies have software legal, and users are warned using pirated packages in an economy that thrives on technology.
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