The local PAN representative, Frida Guillén, proposed applying a tax, as a right to urban sanitation, to digital nomads, and in the process recognize the phenomenon of gentrification in the Tax Code of Mexico City.
Through an initiative, it seeks to define digital nomadism as the action through which a person, national or foreign, takes advantage of information and communication technologies to carry out their work remotely and itinerantly.
Meanwhile, he proposes that gentrification be recognized as the phenomenon through which a population displacement of a residential area as a consequence of disproportionate modifications in the socioeconomic and urban characteristics of a particular physical space.
The legislator proposed that digital nomads who stay for more than 20 nights must pay one UMA (108 pesos) for each additional night of stay.
100% of the public resources generated by this concept will be allocated to the implementation of urban development, transportation and housing projects in Mexico City, through a specific fund for counter gentrification and promote development in the peripheries of the city, in order to counteract the externalities caused by these activities.
“This initiative proposes the implementation of a special contribution to the digital nomad for urban sanitation and attention to the problems derived from gentrification in Mexico City, which aims to moderate and regulate the stay of digital nomads without prohibit it, as well as distribute the concentration of the benefits that this new form of remote work and long-stay tourism leave in the city, in such a way that the profits that are currently encapsulated among the owners and managers of the properties reach the other people who live in the capital, who are the ones who truly suffer the effects of gentrification,” said Frida Guillén.
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