Etiqueta 'Tourist tax'
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

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

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

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

Gorg Blau reservoir in the Tramuntana mountains.

Majorca

Low Cost, tourist tax, drought: the week in Majorca

There was the fallout from the collapse of Low Cost (only the start of the fallout), there was a meeting of tourist-tax spending decision-makers, and the lack of water was becoming more serious.

Andrew Ede24/07/2016 00:00

The president of the commission overseeing tourist tax revenue spending is the tourism minister Biel Barceló.

Tourist tax

Tourist tax commission holds its first meeting

Majorca's hoteliers are still saying that they are considering a legal challenge to the tourist tax. Meanwhile the commission that will decide how revenue is spent has met.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter20/07/2016 00:00

How can an apartment that is not registered for tourist rental be subject to the tourist tax?

Tourist tax

Aptur insists that unregulated holiday rentals are not liable for tourist tax

The association for tourist apartments has all along been insisting that unregulated properties cannot have the tax levied on them.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter18/07/2016 00:00

Tourism minister Barceló would have been pleased to learn that the tourist tax was a "success".

Majorca

The pound, the tax, the toilets: the week in Majorca

Resorts were apparently taking a pounding because of the pound, the tourist tax was being hailed as a success, Britons were wanting to be Spaniards as well, and the lavatories of Palma entered the cruise-ship arguments.

Andrew Ede17/07/2016 00:00

Happy tourist tax payers on the day the tax was brought in.

Tourist tax

Government says the tourist tax has been a success

The tourist tax, says the government, has been introduced successfully and with complete normality. It has all been very positive.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter14/07/2016 00:00

It had been thought that there wasn't a number-of-hours qualification for cruise ship tourist tax demands.

Tourist tax

Under 20% of cruise ships are subject to the tourist tax

Fewer than twenty per cent of cruise ships coming to Balearic ports this year will be subject to the tourist tax. This is because the time they are in port is under twelve hours.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter11/07/2016 00:00

Pound's slump affecting resorts' businesses

Tourism

Pound's slump affecting resorts' businesses

The national hoteliers federation CEHAT and the Exceltur alliance for touristic excellence have both pleaded with the Balearic government to put the tourist tax on hold.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter11/07/2016 00:00