Seems like all of us residents are in favour. Most against appear to be tourists who want to be able to wreck the island on the cheap.When you have all - every single last one of you - coughed up to pay for the carbon footprint of getting you down to the Baleares in the first place, then you can whinge about the minuscule tax.Until then, stfu.
I'm bringing my family of 4 to stay in Paguera for 2 weeks in August. Only one of our children is under 16 so the tourist tax will be I guess around €50 for our stay. We, like many others are on a budget, so we have decided that a planned day renting bikes is no longer going to happen. Sadly we will have to forego a holiday activity, and a local bike hire company has lost our business thanks to the tourist tax.
Simon, I'm Austrian, I have no interest in German politics.
Wolfgang, do you have the same opinion about immigrants in Germany ?.
Why punish the poor tourist and take his hard earned cash off him when more than 163 million euros are owed to the tax office by Mallorcan companies - more than 45 of them - mainly builders, developers and their agents who cashed in on the boom years. On the list published today are some well known names who of course are still trading. What can't this useless government produce a more efficient system to collect all this money from them instead of making the tourist the scapegoat?? After all the minister is qualified in innovation and research as well as tourism.
Hey Barceló, are you going to carry my bags when the baggage handlers go on strike and drive the coach when the coach drivers go on strike? I didn't think so. Your islands' economy only exists because of tourism. You are killing the Goose laying the Golden Eggs. We love your island, but we are staying away because of your greed and stupidity. I cant imagine any of the Tourist Tax being ploughed back into the economy. It will probably go toward pay rises for those who do not deserve it in Central Government!
As the owner of a large house in Puerto Andratx I pay lots of taxes and employ people. This contributes greatly to our lovely Island. Tourists come here, overindulge, behave badly, pollute and leave us to pick up the social and economic cost. Oh I hear you say, it creates employment and wealth. Not really, it keeps a large migrant workforce in jobs that otherwise would leave the Island and creates profits for businesses. I agree with the tax and if this is the start of going down the path of smartening up Mallorca and getting smaller tourist numbers but wealthier, more educated and better behaved ones, then that works for me.
Vas a dejar ahora la Llorona, please stop moaning. I agree with tax-in fact I would make higher. To many tourist in Mallorca, if tax make less people holiday, then that good for residents.
Forgot to mention in my last post the fact that this is one of those things that shows the EU doesn't work. Spain is in the EU so why charge other member states Tax to visit. What happened to free movement? Agree with Stan Jessop its totally wrong maybe all countries should start charging .Tourists pay more on the Mallorcan buses than residents as they have travel cards which tourists can't get its all wrong.
Tourists should take an early morning stroll through Magaluf, and peruse the mountains of rubbish, plastic cups, food scraps, used condoms, flyers and broken bottles etc that our "tourists" have disgarded in the streets. Take a look at the damage to trees and shrubs along the way, the state of public benches and seating areas. The cleaaning up and repair of all this carnage needs paying for, why should the resident be burdened with it.If a tourist thinks Mallorca is too expensive, he should make a trip to the south of france to check. Then go and have a look at the Spanish mainland, and compare like for like.