Hosbec requires PSPV to vote against bill in Parliament in favor of tourism tax

“This is a untimely tax This comes to further punish companies that have not yet overcome the effects of the covid crisis and are stuck in a complex economic situation driven by inflation and increases in energy and food costs that are a core part of utility services. This penalty also extends to consumers who choose the Valencia Community as their place of choice and are also affected by the increases in their shopping cart.”

According to Hosbec, tourism is the sector that has been called upon to maintain and weave the safety net of the Valencia Community economy in the coming years, as in previous crises. Faced with a serious industrial crisis and technology companies, tourism and the overall drag effect will be the activity that makes the decisive contribution to employment, income and contribution to GDP. A new tax that demonizes tourism could jeopardize our entire future.

this Valencia hotel and tourist accommodation sector will lose its competitiveness compared to other destinations of equal or superior attractiveness to ours. “Not only the holiday segment, but above all city, business and even domestic tourism will be affected. MalagaSeville, Madrid, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Santiago… neither the Canary Islands, nor Murcia, nor the Andalusian coasts… nor the inland areas of Cuenca, Teruel, Albacete and Murcia will penalize their tourists and visitors for proximity. Additional tax for those who already pay,” says the employer.

The tourist tax will reward less sustainable tourism: anything that is unregulated and unemployable and that thrives around the informal economy. None of them will pay a fee, so this figure is absolutely against the criteria of quality, professionalism, prestige and prestige. Hospitality that should preside over all tourist activities in the Valencian Community.

Hosbec thinks there is more than enough and justified reason for this. Suspending the processing of the bill at this time, especially given that no reports have been requested or are available to support the compliance and compliance of the tax to be approved. Considering that this is highly contrary to the norm, a report was requested neither from the Legal Advisory Council nor from the Economic and Social Council.

challenge

Hosbec’s legal services, on the other hand, will work to challenge this rule in court, as “a 100% subsidized tax is an absolutely unnecessary tax” and should not go beyond this draft document stage. If you want to generate a council tax as it is sold, you must do so through a Amendment to the Local Treasury Law.

No municipality beyond Valencia (Compromís) has requested or declared in favor of the application of the surcharge of this new tax figure, Valencia is also one of the municipalities most favored by the Next Generation funds, which must manage fully in their sustainability strategy and wholesale in the coming months. amount more than the ‘rate’ collection.

“Even the PSPV’s Board of Trustees Ana Barceló, candidate for mayor of Alicante, did not favor the implementation of this tax in that city. The risks included this new tax dumping created among tourist destinations in the Community itself”.

Hosbec will ask all political parties to include repeal of this rule in their next election schedule before it goes into effect. January 1, 2024.

Finally, Hosbec asks the president. Ximo Puig will retain Francesc Colomer as Regional Secretary of Tourism, to be able to coordinate and monitor the effects of the approval of this new tax on the tourist image of the Valencian Community in different markets and to take the necessary legislative reform or repeal measures as necessary.