Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
Lower house of Mexico's Congress; receives the federal revenue bills each September.
Mexico's Chamber of Deputies is weighing a federal plan, received on 8 September 2026, to raise the tourist entry fee 36% to 1,334.80 pesos in 2027, with committees aiming to clear the revenue bills by 15 October.
Last refreshed: 3 October 2026
Will deputies clear the visitor-fee reform by 15 October?
Timeline for Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
Received the fee reform on 8 September
Nomads & Communities: Mexico proposes 36% rise in visitor feeBackground
The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of Mexico's Congress, seated at the Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro in Mexico City. Its 500 deputies serve three-year terms: 300 are elected in single-member districts and 200 by proportional representation. The constitution gives the chamber the exclusive power to approve the federal spending budget, and each autumn it receives the federal revenue bills first.
That budget role puts the chamber at the centre of how Mexico prices foreign visitors. On 8 September 2026 the federal government sent it a Reform of the Ley Federal de Derechos for 2027, published in Gaceta Parlamentaria No. 7121. The proposal would raise the tourist entry fee about 36% to 1,334.80 pesos and direct 26% of the money to the Instituto Nacional de Migración. Committees aim to clear the revenue bills by 15 October.
The chamber weighs a 36% fee rise
On 8 September 2026 the federal government sent the chamber a Reform of the Ley Federal de Derechos for the 2027 budget, published in Gaceta Parlamentaria No. 7121. The Reform lifts the fee foreign tourists pay on entry from 983 pesos to 1,334.80 pesos and assigns 26% of the money to the Instituto Nacional de Migración for border-security technology.
The fee travels inside the annual revenue package, which the chamber's committees aim to clear by 15 October. That timing means deputies vote on the visitor charge as one line in the federal revenue law, not as a standalone tourism measure, so a deputy WHO opposes the rise must weigh it against the rest of the 2027 package.