28/09/2016 00:00
Why has it taken the hoteliers the best part of six months to mount a legal challenge to the controversial tourist tax? Surely it is just going to add to the confusion. Local hoteliers had a golden opportunity to launch legal proceedings when the tax was first announced before the start of the summer season. They failed to do so and the tax was introduced with little or no problem. In fact I was quite amazed. Not a single major complaint. Tourists quietly paid it and already an estimated 30 million euros have been raised. End of story.
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I paid the tax this year. Didn't complain out loud, but I really would prefer to give the money to the local economy. The €58 that we spent on this would help my " in resort " friends. Its still quite vague as to where the money will be spent. Speculation regarding improving water supplies is one thing, action is another. I still cant help but feel that the tax will be lining someone's pockets or being spent solely in Palma. Maybe a way forward is too tax the super yachts and super rich much more. But of course.. the idea is to force the less well off tourist to holiday elsewhere.
The major hotel groups true colours were exposed when the Panama Papers came out. They don't want to pay taxes like the rest of little people. And now this... They are a bunch of crooks.