Proposal to apply tax to digital nomads in Mexico

Unlike countries such as Spain, where legislation favors the arrival digital nomadsand whose goal is to fill cities with small populations with independent workers, in Mexico they want to tax these workers.

A Mexico City representative has proposed a new measure that would penalize digital nomads with a daily tax from a certain time to offset their impact on the local population.

A new proposal to reform the CDMX Tax Code comes from parliamentarian Frida Guillen. The new measure requires lodging providers to withhold a certain amount of tax from tenants who stay more than 20 nights.

The proposal would apply a UMA (updating unit of measure, a scale that sets a share of Mexico’s minimum wage) for each additional night to offset the impact of the arrival of digital nomads and excessive increases in accommodation prices. housing in urban centers.

“Its arrival clearly represents an important economic benefit, but we must also take into account that its high purchasing power increases the cost of basic things like housing or food for us Mexicans,” the lawmaker said. As stated in the proposal, there are over 90,000 digital nomads throughout Mexico. Its impact on the economy is estimated at 9.3 billion pesos (about 510 million euros). The measure is aimed at mitigating the impact on rent prices, which have risen by an average of 13.63% this year.