Quintana Roo Targets 3 Billion Pesos More in Tourist Tax

Cancún, December 2. — The State Government projects for 2026 an additional collection of nearly 3 billion pesos from the Foreign Visitor Right — known as Visitax — without increasing the amount paid by tourists, but through a more efficient collection mechanism, according to the Fiscal Package sent to Congress.

From the very proposal of the Fiscal Package, the state government acknowledges that the current collection is deficient, so it proposes making lodging centers co-responsible, which will act as withholding agents and jointly responsible for the Visitax to ensure that the collection effectively reaches state coffers.

The Visitax is part of the rights category under the concept of “Use and Exploitation of Public Domain Real Estate of the State.” It remains at 2.50 UMA per foreign visitor, equivalent to almost 283 pesos at 2025 value.

In the 2025 Revenue Law, it was estimated that this concept would generate 1,393 million pesos. For 2026, the state government foresees that the figure will rise to 4,307 million pesos, a jump of 2,914 million that represents a growth of 309%.

This increase will come almost entirely from the Visitax, since the other charge that integrates the same category — the 5 dollars from cruise passengers — did not undergo modifications. In fact, those nearly 3 billion additional pesos represent 60% of the entire growth of the state budget between 2025 and 2026.

Quintana Roo’s budget was 51,473 million pesos for 2025 and will rise to 56,513 million in 2026. That is, an increase of just over 5 billion, of which three billion will come from the Visitax.

The Fiscal Package establishes the creation of a Trust without structure, composed of three funds that will define the destination of the Visitax:

• 10% for the Tourism Promotion and Crisis Control Fund.
• 40% for the Sargassum Control, Beach Cleaning and Recovery Fund.
• 50% for the Development and Strengthening of Strategic Projects with Impact on Tourism Fund.

The Hotel Council has expressed a firm rejection of the new withholding system, considering that it transfers fiscal responsibilities to the sector that do not correspond to it and could generate friction with visitors.