Cancún, QRoo.- The charging scheme for the Right of Use, Enjoyment and Exploitation of Public Domain Assets, better known as Visitx in Quintana Roostill keeps the state’s hotel sector in suspense, until the Income Law 2026 is approved in the local Congress.
The original proposal proposed by Governor Mara Lezama places the business community as jointly responsible for the collection of this tax starting in 2026. foreign tourism rate to stay in one of the 138,000 rooms that operate in the state.
The fee per adult tourist is 284 pesos and has been charged since 2021 in Quintana Roo, although since then only 10% of the total amount projected annually has been collected, as recognized by the state government itself.
To solve this low collection, the Mara Lezama government has proposed that starting in 2026, hoteliers retain those 284 pesos for each guest they receive and deliver the money monthly to the Quintana Roo Tax Administration Service.
The hoteliers’ objection was immediate and has even led them to dialogue tables with Mara Lezama herself and other representatives of the state government; however, these meetings have not reached any definitive agreement.
Just on Friday, December 12, the Hotel Council of the Mexican Caribbean met with the governor without the latter guaranteeing that she will modify the proposed Income Law, exempting them from withholding this charge.
In a conciliatory spirit, the business community recognizes the president’s willingness to dialogue, however, they insist that maintaining this charge as originally proposed “raises questions about the governance, effectiveness and performance of the use of resources, in addition to departing from previously expressed institutional commitments.”
They add that the small hotels They do not have the infrastructure, human resources, or technical knowledge to carry out tax collection tasks that are unrelated to their corporate purpose and we insist that this dispersed scheme generates confusion, friction with the visitor and places us at a disadvantage compared to other Caribbean destinations that, on the contrary, seek to reduce the burden to attract tourism.
The outcome of this disagreement between the state government and the hotel business will be known this Wednesday, December 17, when the Quintana Roo Congress votes on the Income Law and the 2026 Expenditure Budget.
