“Our technology identifies the economic activity of the taxpayer and the tax regime in which he is registered, then makes automatic deductions regarding the associated expenses in the periods that are required, for example, rents, depending on the billing, I can declare taxes every month or every quarter, and then annually, which is what we are currently doing,” Mateo Jaramillo, co-founder of Heru, shared in an interview.
In addition, if there are people who did not submit their periodic statements (monthly or quarterly), Heru can bring them up to date with the tax office, that is, it can bring you up to date with the submission of statements from months in arrears.
Also, if you were registered in a regime last year and you stopped generating income for it, you must file zero returns, and if you are no longer active, you can be discharged or exchanged for a new one.
The service is automated, that is, the user does not have to enter numbers or fill out declarations, but rather request the needs they have. If there are much more specific cases, Heru provides the support service by Whatsapp, email or by phone.
What you have to do?
1.- You must download the Heru application from your mobile phone.
2.- Make a first registration, in which you have access to certain services of the application.
3.- Enter your tax credentials, that is, your RFC and e.firma, data that, according to Jaramillo, are safely encrypted and are used to analyze the taxpayer’s tax situation.
4.- After registration and with access to the app, the system displays information, such as the moment in which the taxpayer began to generate income, the tax regimes in which the taxpayer has paid, and under which regime or regimes it generated in fiscal year 2022; the year to declare during April 2023.
5.- Pay. Depending on the service you need, declaration debits and tax regime will be the prices. For example, presenting the annual declaration of a person who receives income from wages and salaries has a cost of 500 pesos. For a natural person with business activity, the normal annual declaration costs 1,500 pesos, for a Resico 500 pesos. There are also annual plans that include periodic and annual statements.
According to the co-founder, Heru is an interface that, through the RFC and e.firma, opens a session within the SAT platform, extracts the necessary information and submits the declaration to the tax authority.
Also from this application you can download documents such as proof of tax situation, you can access the history of your received and issued invoices; also the compliance opinion. Over the course of the year, it can show you what percentage of your expenses is possibly deductible.
The executive highlighted that Heru, as it belongs to the portfolio of funds such as Gradient Ventures, which is Google’s artificial intelligence fund, and Nasqad, are required to have global security standards for handling information.