Balearic tourist tax will not go up next summer
Opposition parties have been calling for the tourist tax to be scrapped.
Do you think the tourist tax is a good idea?
Wales aiming to copy Balearics with similar tourist tax
"The move is deeply opposed by the Welsh travel industry...."
Palma airport
Palma airport.
Comment: More tourist taxes
The Balearics is showing no signs of scrapping the tax, now Valencia is having one.
Comment: Will Mallorca get more cash?
So, the Balearics are going to pay yet more income tax to Madrid, what’s the return?
Taxing issue
“The tourist tax was introduced to ease the environmental footprint of mass tourism not for rock concerts...”
A vaxxing normal Christmas: the week in Mallorca
Christmas normality depended on citizens doing their duty; lights were going up and hopefully not going off; and what about the tourist tax?
Why was a tourist tax introduced in the first place?
Why was a tourist tax introduced in the first place?
Go-ahead for Palma Cathedral illumination project
Two projects: the other is renovation of the Parc de la Mar.
Senseless legislation
“No senseless legislation in these hard times please...now is not the time...”
Partido Popular call for tourist tax to be suspended in 2021
The PP have proposed various measures, including ones for the self-employed.
Booze ban benefits
At the time it was a bold move to take but it could prove key for resort businesses.
The Week in Tourism
Employment rise, but then ...
All very encouraging, therefore. But that was February; this is March.
- Spain wants Britons to show they have 113.40 euros, £97, per day for their holidays
- Sunloungers set ablaze in Alcudia
- Spanish pensioners stuck at Palma Airport for fourteen hours
- Over two hours for Britons to get through Palma airport queues
- Palma Airport passport control "collapse" put down to unscheduled flights
Comment
No, to higher tax
It should be spent on projects which will benefit tourism not on housing or agriculture.
Jason Moore23/09/2022 10:36