Etiqueta 'Tourist tax'
The tax authorities have been gathering data on properties being rented out.

Tax

Hacienda making it tougher to avoid paying tax on rental properties

The number of complaints from neighbours regarding owners who rent out to tourists has trebled in the past year.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter12/11/2016 00:00

Earlier this year, and a somewhat tense meeting between Podemos and the hoteliers to discuss the tourist tax.

Tourist tax

Hoteliers critical of tourist tax payment modification

The hoteliers fear that they will end up paying more tourist tax than they actually collect.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter03/11/2016 00:00

Autumn days in Majorca, but it'll still be getting dark early, despite the call for summertime to be retained.

Majorca

Time, tourist tax and holiday prices: the week in Majorca

The Balearics didn't want to turn the clocks back, there were different estimates of tourist losses because of the tourist tax, the price of holidays was increasing, and there was good news about unemployment, though it was questionable how good that news really was.

Andrew Ede30/10/2016 00:00

The Balearic tourist tax will have minimal impact on tourist numbers.

Tourist tax

Tourist tax will reduce tourism by one per cent

The impact of the tax is portrayed as being minimal. Other factors determine tourist decision-making.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter28/10/2016 00:00

The forest by Bellver castle is a target for tourist tax revenue.

Tourist tax

Fourteen million of tourist tax revenue sought by Palma

Among the projects are smart wifi in Playa de Palma and improvements to the pathways in the forest by Bellver Castle.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter26/10/2016 00:00

The Balearic government is insisting that the tourist tax will not go up in 2017.

Tourist tax

Government ruling out tourist tax increase next year

Barceló said that the government has never spoken about there being too many tourists.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter18/10/2016 00:00

Discussing an increase to the tourist tax? Laura Camargo and Alberto Jarabo.

Finance

Government spending plans "optimistic" without tax increases

Laura Camargo of Podemos today reiterated the party's request for an increase to the tourist tax.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter10/10/2016 00:00

Officers from the National Police at the school where the eight-year-old girl was attacked.

Majorca

Appalling and all-including: the week in Majorca

Police had to deal with the grim and the nasty but provided a hero. There was rain and there was the tourism minister talking all-inclusives, holiday rentals and tourist tax.

Andrew Ede09/10/2016 00:00

Alberto Jarabo and Laura Camargo of Podemos. They will now be involved in the budget process, and that could mean a rise in the tourist tax.

Tourist tax

Tourist tax may rise in 2017

Each of the three parties in the government "pact" - PSOE, Més and Podemos - is said to be in favour of increasing the tourist tax rate.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter07/10/2016 00:00

A police operation against prostitutes in Magalluf from five years ago.

Majorca

Tourist tax, rentals, ice-cream, prostitutes: the week in Majorca

The hoteliers federation's challenge to the tourist tax was accepted, Airbnb was in the firing-line, police were being dismissed, the ice-cream saga of Pollensa continued and Calvia was no longer taking prostitutes to court.

Andrew Ede02/10/2016 00:00

Inma Benito of the Majorca Hoteliers Federation is convinced the challenge to the tourist tax will succeed.

Tourist tax

Court accepts hoteliers' tourist tax appeal

Laura Camargo of Podemos said the hoteliers have an "allergy" to taxes and that the appeal is a "disgrace".

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter28/09/2016 00:00

Laura Camargo of Podemos insisted that the tourist tax rate should be raised.

Majorca

Tourist limits, rain and fatalities: the week in Majorca

The tourist tax and tourist limits were again the focus of debate, a shopping complex opened, plastic bags were on the agenda, it rained, and two more people lost their lives on Majorca's roads.

Andrew Ede25/09/2016 00:00

The Partido Popular's Marga Prohens said that the government didn't know where to begin with some of its tourism policy.

Politics

32 million euros raised by the tourist tax

The Partido Popular proposed a "grand pact" for tourism that will define tourism policy for the next twenty years.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter21/09/2016 00:00

Biel Barceló and Pere Muñoz, director of the Balearic Tourism Agency, during a press announcement.

Tourist tax

Barceló can't understand hoteliers' ecotax challenge

"We regret the appeal, but that is their right (the hoteliers). This seems to relate solely to the federation's initial opposition to the tax."

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter19/09/2016 00:00

Water is the Balearic government's first priority for this year's tourist tax revenue.

Tourist tax

Tourist tax revenue to go towards improving water infrastructure

30 million euros from revenue collected this year are said to be earmarked for water infrastructure improvements.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter17/09/2016 00:00

The hoteliers are challenging the tourist tax, but they didn't get very far when they did so with the old ecotax.

Tourist tax

Hoteliers take the tourist tax to court

The High Court now has twenty days in which to decide whether to accept the appeal or not.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter17/09/2016 00:00

Hotels will be making their first tourist tax payments in September.

Tourist tax

Tourist tax self-assessment period starting

95.5% of the 12,500 establishments on the tax agency register are opting for the self-assessment procedure.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter30/08/2016 00:00

Hotels should mostly all be registered for the tourist tax, but there are an awful lot of legitimate holiday rental properties which are not.

Tourist tax

Almost 12,000 establishments meet the tourist tax deadline

According to tourism ministry figures, there are 9,175 authorised holiday rentals' properties in Majorca. Of these, only 5,968 met the deadline.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter02/08/2016 00:00