by Donald Wood
Last updated: 12:35 AM ET, Tue February 20, 2018
Hotel owners in Cancun are negotiating with local government officials to stop a planned increase for the lodging tax.
According to Reportur.com, several of the top hoteliers in the popular tourist destination are fighting to keep the lodging tax at 50 percent of the overnight stay rate as compared to the 60 percent rate proposed by politicians.
If the local government continues to move forward with its plan to raise the lodging tax, hotel owners are joining together to defend themselves. Inverotel manager Ramon Rosello previously told Reportur that he worries about Mexico's desire to increase taxes.
"There is too much tax pressure and in the end that affects the cost to the client and we have to avoid that," Rosello said in an interview with Reportur. "It is true that in Mexico we have to try to become leaders by not increasing our fiscal pressure, because we can run the risk that other countries will try to lure our tourists away because of this."
Last year, the Quintana Roo government reversed its proposal to increase the lodging tax in Cancun by one percentage point, deciding instead to leave the rate at its current level of three percent.
The government is also currently working with hotels in the region on the allotment of resources to help the industry bolster its public security.
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