Cruise ship tourists to Mexico are now paying a US $5 tax

Cruise ship tourists to Mexico are now paying a US $5 tax

Mexico began to impose a US $5 tax on cruise ship tourists on Tuesday, finally implementing a compromise between the government and the cruise ship companies that had lobbied fiercely against the originally proposed $42 (780 pesos) levy. The government had planned for the Non-Resident Duty (DNR) to kick in as of January this year, but it was met with pushback from cruise ship companies, who argued that  implementation would threaten Mexico’s tou…