Playa del Carmen Weighs Extending Tax Breaks to December

Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo — Playa del Carmen officials are weighing whether to extend the city’s tax incentive package beyond November into December, or replace it with a differently focused program, Municipal Treasurer Guillermo Brahams said.

Brahams said the possibility was one of the agreements reached during a meeting with representatives of several business groups and chambers of commerce in the city.

“It is a program that has worked very well and has helped both the city government and residents; we have helped each other,” he said. “We are analyzing whether to extend it or to change it for a different type of program given the dates, always with the aim of helping and collecting, because we have to spend.”

The property tax has been the discount most widely used by taxpayers during the current incentive package, Brahams said, which is one reason officials are considering carrying it through December. Any extension would first require approval from the City Council.

Brahams said the meeting also produced an agreement to prepare a second package of fiscal incentives, this one aimed at taxpayers who pay their dues on time and in full.

“We can do something; we are working on how to develop a subsidy strategy that can benefit those people who comply,” he said.