Dr. Adolfo Solís
Socio Director
He received a law degree (juris doctor) from the National University of Mexico.
He holds a Master's Degree in Taxes and a Master's Degree in Constitutional Procedural Law. Also, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Tax Law (magna cum laude) with a doctoral dissertation titled “Tax collection improvement derived from the control of corruption”. He was the first from his cohort to obtain a tax law doctoral degree.
He completed the academic phase of a second Ph.D. in Tax Law, which was taught by law scholars from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He also completed the postgraduate course "The economic and legal activity of the State" from the University of Salamanca, Spain.
Upon the completion of his academic research and studies, he was hired by the Mexican Treasury Department (Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público), where he served during ten years, approximately.
In 1999, he was assigned to the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Guatemala, specifically to the Tax Administration Superintendency, where he developed several tax programs funded by the Inter-American Development Bank.
During 2000, he traveled to Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Peru, to analyze the tax and financial structures of these countries and carried research focused on the effects in the tax collection caused by the political processes then underway at Venezuela and Peru.
In 2001, he was an international tax advisor based on Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, China.
On 2002, he joined the law firm Grupo Farías Abogados, where to date continues to practices law. Such firm which holds an ISO 9001-certification for their legal defense system.
In addition to his experience in public service and tax litigation, he is a tax law scholar and teaches courses at the doctoral level in several Universities in Mexico.
He is a permanent columnist on tax related issues for magazines in Mexico and Spain and a radio and television contributor on tax law related issues.
He has been a speaker in more than 1,250 domestic and international forums, seminars and courses related to taxes, litigation procedures, responsibilities of public servants, corporate fraud, financial fraud and taxpayer defense.
On January 2006, traveled to Argentina and Brazil to analyze their tax and financial structure.
On January 2007, submitted in Europe a proposal to restructure their Tax Administration in order to increase tax collection.
In 2007, he was appointed institutional and academic representative of the International Court of Conciliation and Arbitration of MERCOSUR and Canada, in the unfair trade practices charter.
Since December 2008, he was appointed by the firm Grupo Farías, Abogados Tributarios, as national coordinator to supervise the biggest and most relevant cases against the Federal Treasuary Department.
In February 2014, he was the lawyer who represented the entire border against the tax law reforms related to VAT; filing the largest class action tax protection suit in the history of Mexico in terms of the number of complainants. In 2017, he filed a class action protection suit against laws changes to the increase in the price of gas and diesel, which successfully evidenced that the methodology used for the price calculation was incorrect. Likewise, filed class actions suits against the increases in state on payroll taxes, environmental, gaming, lodging and sanitary license regulations that grouped for the first time the business, commercial and industrial sectors of Baja California.
On July 2017 and February 2018, he received two honoris causa Ph.D. degrees for his exceptional contributions to tax law pertaining to the principles of ultra-activity, objective and subjective aspects of tax equality and equity and tax legal certainty.
He has been involved in the defense and recovery of significant national assets, successfully reversing expropriation processes of golf courses, reclaiming over two thousand yachts held in marinas across the country, and effectively representing major taxpayers in highly complex tax proceedings.
Adolfo Solís has been recognized as a renowned Mexican jurist, humanist, social theorist, business activist, and philanthropist, occasionally described as a polymath. He currently remains a partner at the law firm Grupo Farías Abogados, where he continues to practice law.
