New tourist tax to come in mid-May

Visitor levy consultation thanks

Visitor levy consultation thanks maclennanai Tue, 15 Apr 2025 - 12:15 15 April 2025 Argyll and Bute Council’s 12-week visitor levy consultation is now closed. Thank you to everyone who participated and gave their views through the surveys, information events, emails, and enquiries. This feedback will now be passed to an independent external agency to produce a report on the findings. This report will then be presented to councillors for consider…

New tourist tax to come in mid-May

The municipality of Nordeste, the only one on the island of São Miguel, in the Azores, that is not charging the municipal tourist tax, expects that the charge may go ahead in May.

Four of the six municipalities in São Miguel began to charge a tourist tax in January, a procedure that, contrary to what was originally planned by the association of municipalities, was delayed in the Northeast and in Povoação, a municipality where the situation is already settled and the fee is being charged normally. “It didn't take effect right away because it lacked publication in the Official Gazette. That's it now. The month of January is…