Isla Mujeres Mayor Seeks Third Yearly Property Tax Hike

Chetumal — The Quintana Roo Congress continued its Wednesday session by admitting income laws and fiscal reforms from state municipalities, including an initiative to increase the cadastral land values in Isla Mujeres, with which Mayor Atenea Gómez Ricalde will apply a second consecutive annual increase to the base for property tax collection.

Additionally, this new increase in the property tax base will be the third applied consecutively by the government of Atenea Gómez Ricalde, as she began this series of annual increases in cadastral values starting in 2024.

The Table of Unit Values for Land and Construction in the municipality of Isla Mujeres had its last increase just this year in 2025, but now the neomorenista mayor intends a new increase in land values for 2026.

In her proposal, approved by the island council, the mayor states that it does not go unnoticed “that the last update of the Tables was in the 2025 fiscal year, which is why it is considered pertinent to propose the modification of the unit land values, so that property owners in our municipality contribute in a proportional and fair manner with the property tax in accordance with a base or cadastral value to be considered as an element of said tax for the 2026 fiscal year.”

“It is worth highlighting that, since the last approval of the Tables of Unit Values for Land and Constructions that currently serve as the basis for the collection of contributions on real estate property, the reality of the Municipality of Isla Mujeres has changed significantly, from which it becomes imperative to carry out the update that is the subject of this initiative in order to adapt it to the current reality of the municipality,” she affirms, referring to a period of just one year.

For 2025, the city council headed by Atenea Gómez Ricalde carried out the modification of the formula for calculating property values, the update of 18 value zones, and the modification of maps of some homogeneous value zones, with increases ranging from 11.11% to 100% in 15 zones and decreases from 20% to 75% in only 3 zones.

Within the value zones, there are 6 located on the island, of which 3 are in popular neighborhoods, which had an increase in their appraisal values for property tax collection in 2025.

For 2026, the Gómez Ricalde government will apply increases of more than double for zones that already had an increase last year, such as a sector in Zone 3, where the value per square meter will rise from 2,000 pesos to 4,680 pesos, this being the maximum value on the island and which will also apply in zones 7, 8, and 9, which until this year had values of 3,000 and 4,500 pesos.

In Zone 4, where the maximum value this year was 530 pesos, it is subdivided to leave values at up to 2,080 pesos and others at 795 and 550 pesos; while in zones 5 and 6, they rise to 552 and 795 pesos.

In the continental part of the municipality, corresponding to the Chacmuchuch Peninsula, zone 10A increases from 2,500 to 3,120 pesos; 10B, from 1,800 to 3,120 pesos; 13A, from 2,200 to 3,190 pesos; and 13B, from 1,200 to 1,740 pesos.

But Gómez Ricalde will apply the opposite measure to the rest of the continental zone, where the Ciudad Mujeres development is located, as there the value per square meter of land will exceptionally decrease in zones that had an increase in 2025, such as 16A, from 50 to 25 pesos; in Zone 18A, from 20 to 10 pesos; in 21A from 20 to 10 pesos; while in 20B it increases only 10 pesos, from 260 to 270.50 pesos, without explaining in the statement of reasons the reason for the unequal treatment between the island and this portion of the continental zone.

It is worth mentioning that, on the other hand, the XVIII Legislature referred to committees the initiatives of the Income Law for the 2026 fiscal year, corresponding to the municipalities of Othón P. Blanco, for the amount of 1,368,220,405 pesos; of Isla Mujeres, for 1,059,167,464 pesos; of Benito Juárez, for 8,253,401,418 pesos; of José María Morelos, for 434,799,103 pesos; and of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, for 797,269,724 pesos.

Initiatives for reforms to the Municipal Treasury Laws of Othón P. Blanco, Benito Juárez, and Isla Mujeres, as well as to the State Municipal Fiscal Code at the request of Isla Mujeres, were also sent for analysis.