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The tourist tax: what we know, what we don’t know
The tourist tax - its cost, its collection, its use, its support. Plus questions that still need answering.
Security, all-inclusives, saturation: the week in Majorca
The attacks in Brussels led to concerns about security in Majorca, the tourist tax was approved and all-inclusives became the target for tourism ministry inspections. These and more in the Majorca Daily Bulletin last week.
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Tourist tax approved and will be charged from 1 July
Biel Barceló on the tourist tax: "Now there is great acceptance by society and also parliament, while tourist businesses know that in much of Europe similar taxes apply."
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Tourist tax to be approved tomorrow
It is not expected that there will be any further disagreements between the government partners that might delay the approval.
Postman Patricio and The Old Bill: the week in Majorca
Amidst attempts at securing referendum votes for the British diaspora, a "hodge-podge" of a tax and Easter bookings, there were concerns about postal deliveries and talk of the return of the summertime British bobbies.
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Tourist tax will start on 1 July
Another significant aspect of the bill - the use of revenue for social purposes, such as care homes for the elderly - has been knocked back.
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Tourist tax to be approved despite differences
“It won’t be the tax that PSOE and Més had planned but nor will it be the one that Podemos had planned, but the tax will be supported.”
Booming economy, booming tourism: the week in Majorca
Heartening news on an economic front, some further nonsense about the tourist tax and defence of the bull-run. Some themes of the past week in the Majorca Daily Bulletin.
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Request for tourist tax revenue to Social Services Council
Revenue raised by the tourist tax would be devoted to social infrastructures.
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Berlin fair confirms record summer for Majorca
German tour operators are expressing concern about the tourist tax and what it will be spent on.
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Government accepts citizen participation in tourist tax
Alberto Jarabo said that there has been movement on prioritising environmental projects and on a formula for distributing tax revenue on a territorial basis across the islands.
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Latest tourist tax row over residences for the elderly
Més spokesperson, Toni Reus, has reiterated the party's view that one of the purposes of the "sustainable tourism tax" is social, and that this would therefore include creating places at residences for senior citizens.
Referendum, Ryanair, Royal Household: the past week in Majorca
A minor issue to do with a referendum, nothing of any significance in terms of winter flights and tourism, nobody in court, tourist tax causing no stir. This was not the week in the Bulletin. Instead ...
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Tourist tax to help boost European image of the Balearics
An overriding aim is for actions on behalf of the image of the Balearics in Europe so that tourists can see how revenue is being invested.
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Balearic eco tax
Letter to the Editor: It is widely acknowledged that tourist destinations suffer from the overuse of their own natural resources due to the arrival of millions of visitors.
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Palma PP demanding 10% of tourist tax revenue
Neus Truyol believes that Palma should have its voice, given that the city has half the population of Majorca and half the hotelier pressure.
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Tourist tax saved by two votes after government split emerges
Government sources said that Podemos was not prepared to budge on its demands.
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Podemos may vote against tourist tax tomorrow
The PP, meanwhile, is agitating for a vote in favour of amending the whole bill, which would, in effect, send it back to the drawing-board.
The Nóos trial, tourist tax battles and Jet2: the past week in Majorca
A former president of the Balearics in the dock, continuing anxieties as to water supplies, the inevitable and ongoing rumpus over the tourist tax and winter tourism: all of a sudden it had arrived.
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Podemos: tourist tax is a fraud on the citizenship
Podemos: If there were a vote right now, it would not be a vote for an eco-tax.