
Catalan News
June 18, 2025 at 01:25 PM
🛍 *Tourist tax increase*
⛺ The Catalan parliament has delayed implementing a higher tourist tax on hotels, camping, and other tourist accommodations to "correct" a previous decree-law, a temporary law enforced in the case of extraordinary and urgent need
💶 Left-wing Esquerra Republicana argues that "Catalonia is not only Barcelona, and Barcelona is not only Catalonia," which is why they back having two different tourist taxes outside of Barcelona, depending on the season
🧳 But, Comuns is against their proposal as it would consider the skiing season in the Pyrenees as off-season, and they defend that "what a tourist pays in terms of taxes is not what makes them decide to come or not," Comuns' spokesperson David Cid said
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