Tourist Tax?

[Miller]

Please do Miller .

Sparky, sorry I meant to advise you of my discussions earlier. I had various chats with different levels of management at the aparthotel in September. The general responses varied. The example that I used was for a 14 day stay in one resort/aparthotel followed by a transfer to another resort/aparthotel. My query was that as I would have paid the higher rate for the initial period at the first resort, is and if so why is the higher rate payable roe the initial period at the second resort.
I never got the same answer twice. I gave up in the end. What did surprise me was that some stated that if they, Spanish National living in the port went to say Palma for a break, they were often also charged the tax which was easier to pay than argue about.
Any thoughts? I do not mind paying the tax providing it goes to the correct place and is not kept in full or part by the aparthotel.
Regards

 

[Sparky]

Sparky, sorry I meant to advise you of my discussions earlier. I had various chats with different levels of management at the aparthotel in September. The general responses varied. The example that I used was for a 14 day stay in one resort/aparthotel followed by a transfer to another resort/aparthotel. My query was that as I would have paid the higher rate for the initial period at the first resort, is and if so why is the higher rate payable roe the initial period at the second resort.
I never got the same answer twice. I gave up in the end. What did surprise me was that some stated that if they, Spanish National living in the port went to say Palma for a break, they were often also charged the tax which was easier to pay than argue about.
Any thoughts? I do not mind paying the tax providing it goes to the correct place and is not kept in full or part by the aparthotel.
Regards

It is true that residents have to pay the tax if they stay at a hotel. I don't think hotels keep any of the tax, it is passed on to the government but there is some debate as to what they are using it for.

 

[mike_dublin]

Palma Metro extension, Balearic Symphony Orchestra's new headquarters and social housing projects - all for 'sustainable tourism'?


https://www.majorcadailybulletin.co...t-defends-tourist-tax-spending-decisions.html

Opposition parties attacked tourist tax revenue spending decisions in the Balearic parliament yesterday. They accused the government of using the revenue to fill gaps in the budget, with the Partido Popular's Nuria Riera describing as a "joke" the manner in which decisions are made. Tourists believe they are paying for environmental recovery, when they are not.

Jaume Font of El Pi said that the purpose of the tax had been "perverted" and reserved particular criticism for the failure to fund projects proposed by town halls (with the exception of Palma). "The town halls are wasting their time."

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Responding to these charges, the vice-president and minister for energy transition Juan Pedro Yllanes emphasised that the tax continues to have the purposes that were intended. There is investment in "strategies for tourism in the long term", and he defended the spending of the tax on the Palma Metro extension and the Balearic Symphony Orchestra's new headquarters.

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Pilar Costa, minister for the presidency, dismissed the accusation that the tax is being used to cover gaps in government spending capability. This accusation is made every year, she maintained, and believed that arguments boiled down to "differences of opinion" regarding, for example, the use of the tax for social housing projects.

see full article on the MDB website