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.
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.
Tourist tax
Ecotax commission has to choose from over 220 proposals for funding
Over one hundred of the proposals are for projects for water.
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.
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.
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.
Tourist tax
Government ruling out tourist tax increase next year
Barceló said that the government has never spoken about there being too many tourists.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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