Tourism minister Biel Barceló told parliament today that it was now time to make contributions that should be on behalf of society from the sustainable tourism tax.
Tourist tax
Barceló says tourist tax priority will be the environment
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Tourist tax what else would you expect from someone as gormless looking as her
I post once, it comes up 3 times. Sorry - but as there's no delete/edit system I can do nothing about it.
John Reeves (below) has it spot on. Alas, Mallorcan politicians seem not to employ logic and have come up with a tax that is a) doomed to failure, and worse b) will seriously harm the living standards of hardworking local people.
John Reeves (below) has it spot on. Alas, Mallorcan politicians seem not to employ logic and have come up with a tax that is a) doomed to failure, and worse b) will seriously harm the living standards of hardworking local people.
John Reeves (below) has it spot on. Alas, Mallorcan politicians seem not to employ logic and have come up with a tax that is a) doomed to failure, and worse b) will seriously harm the living standards of hardworking local people.
It strikes me as quite perverse that a tax is introduced on tourists in order to fund ecology etc. Taxes are designed either to stop a particular problem - tobacco, alcohol, smoking etc, or are designed to raise additional revenues to invest. With tourism, surely the island should be doing things to promote tourism and spending that creates wealth for island business , which is then taxed via payrolls, corporation tax, VAT etc and this money is then invested in the economy? Taxing the people you want to encourage to visit and spend seems a very strange, left wing approach. A better way would be to offer incentives to come so that you attract more wealthy visitors - cleaner beaches, better infrastructure, higher standard hotels and restaurants, safer bike paths all strike me as a more rounded approach to improving the wealth of the nation.
The priority of a great many will be how much they can skim of and pocket.