FACT
FILE Taxe de séjour - information supplied by jmlvillas.com
If
you are letting your holiday property, then you might well
have to charge a daily tourist visitor tax as a hotel owner
would normally have to pay. The issue came to the attention
of a jmlvillas.com client in the summer of 2005. The local
Marie sent a tax demand for 2005 and also advised it had overlooked
2004 and 2003. Naturally there was no way to try and obtain
any re-imbursement from 2005 clients who had completed formalities
or any from previous years. The Marie in the South of France
now requires 70 cents per adult per day.
They state that even though a property owner is paying Taxe
d'Habitation and Taxe Foncière the property owner is “still
making money” on the letting and they want a small percentage
for the village/town.
We asked some of our advertisers from around France and here
is a selection of replies. There certainly does not appear
a standard for France like with other taxes and you will see
from the replies it varies from area to area or even Marie.
“Taxe de Séjour is a local tax set by the Marie usually per
head adults and over 12yr in our commune there are variable
according to status of rental ,hotel gite camping or immeubles
pour location. Our rate is .30€ per head per day so 2.1€ per
week so could be 8.4€ per family per week , which is a joke
if you have to charge the tourist that sum so its included
in the rental . There isn't much of a "control" so I never
have more than one family stay in a gite with children always
under 12 years old”
“Can't really help but....in our village there is no Tax de
Séjour but in neighbouring villages there is...I think perhaps
it depends on your Mayor and the rules of your commune”
“Yes
we are aware though that it only applied to Brittany( our
local rates are 50 cents per night for Adults only between
June and August, it is something that apparently was tried
a few years ago without success”
“Our experience of this is that each individual Marie has
the right to impose the charge but they are not oblige to.
We have never registered our 2 little cottages with the tourist
board as we stick to clients from anywhere else in the world.
Perhaps this has helped us avoid the problem. Our main property
in which we do B & B as well as renting it out, was first
registered with Gites de France and because of that we just
got into the system (we even have a Siret number). But again,
our local Marie has never imposed a tourist tax on us - get
friendly with the Maire!”
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