Santiago would enter 2,625,000 Euros per year. implementation of the tourist tax. This is reflected in the number of overnight stays in 2022 as follows: report prepared by the local government to the University of Santiago (USC), “The establishment of a regional tourism tax based on accommodation in accommodation enterprises, would be totally right”. impose such a fee, which may be referred to as “”tourist accommodation tax”, the Galician Parliament needs to give municipalities the power to impose the tax, so Raxoi present your offer in San Caetano in the coming weeks.
“Tourism is an economic, social and cultural phenomenon of great importance. especially santiagoThis causes problems of overcrowding, which creates higher costs and negative externalities in the provision of certain services. Given this, This financial tool is particularly useful” collects the plan that the City Council is working in and states that “the law should define such a taxable event, made by taxpayers in businesses and tourist equipment, whether tourists stay in days or fractions, overnight or not.
regarding the financial amount of the fee, which will also tax the accommodation tourist apartments, is released between a minimum of 0.5 euros and a maximum of 2.5 euros per day, with a limit of six days. The minimum canon will be paid by people who spend the night in hostels and hostels, inns, blocks and standard tourist apartments, standard tourist use houses and other rural hotels. Also camping in campsites and overnight areas in caravan traffic and on a private farm with qualified housing and tourist hostels.
Ratio becomes one euro For accommodation in 1, 2 and 3 star hotels as well as blocks for superior tourist use, premium touristic apartments and houses and 3 and 4 star rural houses and hotels. Also, the report fixed 1.5 Euro per day or faction stays in blocks and complexes of superior tourist apartments.
In addition, set at 2 euros per day Fractional accommodation or accommodation in 4-star and 4-star superior hotels, aparthotels, spa hotels and thalassos hotels and equivalent categories of facilities or equipment.
Finally, the rate amounts to a maximum of 2.5 euros per day hotels, aparthotels, spa hotels and five-star thalassos hotels, great luxury, luxury campsites and five-star apart-hotels, for great five-star luxury and four-star superior stays.
Santiago City Council’s proposal also highlights “home accommodation for tourist use”. should be included in the circumstances in which the tax may be claimed., because there will be no objective reason to exclude them” and proposes that this tax be applied only in municipalities that are declared to have high tourist impact or high seasonal tourist impact. “An attempt to make such a statement will only correspond to the affected municipality,” says one report. where the money will go “We recommend that at least 95% of tax collection be allocated to local governments that enforce the tax – which are declared to have a large tourism impact. A significant portion of the funding must return to these municipalities in the form of unconditional financing”.
The report also alleged rate of hikers This, in turn, will be necessary for passengers arriving by bus who settle on the Xoán XXIII promenade near the Cathedral. His application will be entrusted to the municipality company that operates the car park in question and will be collected through the bus companies that transport the visitors to the city.
Regarding the total amount that could be collected in Santiago applying this new tax, and although the plan states that it is not easy to determine, from €1.75 considering 1,500,000 overnight stays in 2022 and the average nightly amount of the offer, “This means that the income generated in Santiago will be 2,625,000 Euros.”.
They also said that this tax “Does not affect the elasticity of tourism demand in Compostela” and it would be very positive because “It has great income potential.”, as reflected, highlight aggregate data from other autonomous communities that impose a similar tax figure. “In Catalonia, the collection data was very important, although it varied given the seasonality of tourism. 39,970,000 euros were raised in 2017 during the pre-pandemic years and high season; €38,540,000 in 2018 and €42,580,000 in 2019”, says the report that the Santiago City Council is working on. “The figures therefore confirm the expediency of imposing a tax with these features approved by the Galician Parliament law”, they conclude.
Exemptions in cases that do not correspond to tourist stays: trips for health reasons, business…
The offer also does not tax visits to attend sporting events or for academic reasons.
The proposal made by USC for the Santiago City Council provides for exemptions in these cases. not corresponding to tourist accommodation. And, for example, “accommodations made due to force majeure determined by the regulation; those performed by any person for health reasons and the persons accompanying them; In the field of activities such as giving conferences and participation in evaluation panels carried out by public and foundation universities, those carried out for academic purposes; carried out to participate in official sports competitions; or stays because of work”.
thinks too other exemptions “stays by persons aged eighteen and under; on the occasion of the accommodation of minors accompanying them on excursions or school trips at educational levels lower than university; those subsidized by the social programs of a public administration of any European Union Member State; or for persons with disabilities who demonstrate a degree of disability equal to or greater than 66%.