The tourist tax has passed the penultimate parliamentary process, and according to the calendar crafted by Botànic, everything indicates that it will happen. approved permanently during November in the Valencian Courts. Finally, without the possibility of an extra surcharge for tourist apartments, as suggested by the socialist Sandra Gómez, deputy mayor of Valencia. So, with the cost range generated based on the initial bid: between 0.5 Euros and two Euros per night stay by type of accommodation and municipality and volunteer characterIn other words, the municipalities will ultimately decide whether this tax will come into effect or not.
The Valencian left took down every single one of them this Friday. changes registered by the right. After all, it is the amendments that propose not to introduce changes to the articles of this bill, but ultimately to empty its content. Break down the option to apply the tax on hotel stays to avoid this way. But this is something that seems unlikely to happen. PSPV, Compromís and Unides Podem also closed the last lines of the controversial proposal, which led to the frontal rejection of the Hosbec employers’ association, and likewise showed that there was no absolute consensus among the socialists.
The parliamentary spokesmen, who were integrated into the Economy, Budget and Treasury Committee, discussed the amendments submitted to the text with their ultimately unchanging stance. PP, Cs and Vox join forces to stop the initiative They have done so in vain, knowing that the forces that institutionalize “turismophobia” but support the government are sufficient to maintain the agreed-upon roadmap of the parliamentary majority. Only proposals made by the signatories of a law they described as “reasonable and reasonable” were accepted, while those suggesting the repeal of each of the articles and provisions of the norm were rejected. There was nothing previously unknown.
The fringes introduced by Botànic groups, to clarify some of the doubts that municipalities have, to strengthen its voluntary nature and adapt accommodation rating and nomenclature to the Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Act. However, the rate in practice it would not begin to be implemented until 2024 After the one-year moratorium on the drafting of the norm due to the complex situation currently registered, when the consequences of the blockade created by the pandemic still remain, and the energy crisis and inflation obscure any perspective.
PP’s Spokesperson for Tourism in Parliament, Manuel Perez Phenolevaluated that rate as “a new tax that penalizes the community and an industry that contributes approximately 3,900 million in taxes each year.” He also said that the majority of the society is against interest and if they manage, they will withdraw interest. On his behalf, Cs attorney Charles Grace He questioned penalizing an industry that “contributes to the public coffers more than three times the expenditure allocated to it”, punishing a business model that adds the most value and creates the most jobs. But, as he emphasizes, the secret proposition, the sunken economy, cannot be hacked. Ana Maria CerdanThe bill should “put it in the drawer and forget it,” Vox said. Regional Tourism Secretary, Francis ColomerPSPV is against this tax.
The left was for him with the same determination that the right was categorically against taxation. Trini Castello (PSPV) He said the purpose of this regulation is precisely to combat tourism-phobia, because it occurs when “citizens see that the harm caused by tourism is greater than the benefit.” father oakHe complained to Compromís that the opposition was still unable to prevent this law from moving forward and that the debate itself was “in anger” because its amendments lacked substance. He insisted that this proportion was already active in many European cities and communities such as Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. He stressed that what is sought is for “people who come to benefit from our services to contribute so that Valencians don’t pay for them.” And he insisted that it was voluntary. From Unides Podem, Ferran Martinez He predicted that the tourism tax would be applied not only by the left, but also by the administrations led by the right. After all, he thought it was a “very reasonable bill” and the rate was “even loose”.
After the discussion, which is one of the last discussions bullet parliamentarians move forward in rate approval. The opinion must now be discussed at the plenary session of the Cortes before it can be definitively endorsed. And this is something that is scheduled to happen in less than a month.
“You are very bad people”
Despite the tension surrounding the debates between the two blocks of the parliamentary arch, there’s always room for a funny wink. It was also this Friday. The joke came after the amendments were voted on. The commission’s chairman, the popular Eva Ortiz, recommended vice-president socialist Jesús Sellés as rapporteur for the opinion of the tourism tax before the plenary meeting, so that “he would become one of Botany”.
Robles replied, “No, no, no. We want him to be president,” and Martínez added with a laugh: “Yes, yes.”
You are very bad people,” Ortiz joked, which caused laughter. “I have no problem,” the president continued, but asked Sellés: “Do you like it?”
“Good,” he replied. So it will be the socialist who offers it.