Municipalities or communities of municipalities may ask vacationers staying in their territory to pay a tourist tax. This tax allows territories to finance expenses linked to tourist attendance or the protection of their natural spaces for tourism purposes. The tourist tax is due per person and per night.
Municipalities or communities of municipalities may ask vacationers staying in their territory to pay a tourist tax. This tax allows territories to finance expenses linked to tourist attendance or the protection of their natural spaces for tourism purposes. The tourist tax is due per person and per night.
Its amount varies depending on the type of accommodation. The amount of the tax must be displayed to the owner of the accommodation. In addition, it must appear on the invoice given to the vacationer.
The tourist tax must be paid by the vacationer who stays in one of the following accommodations: palace, tourist hotel, tourist residence, furnished tourist accommodation or vacation rental between individuals, bed and breakfast, holiday village, outdoor accommodation (camping, caravanning, port of pleasure, parking area), youth hostel.
It is paid to the landlord, hotelier or owner who pays it to the community of municipalities. It can also be paid to the professional who provides the internet reservation service on behalf of the landlord, the hotelier, the owner.
Some vacationers may be exempt from tourist tax, according to the decision of the community of municipalities or the EPCI: people aged under 18, holders of a seasonal employment contract employed in the municipality, beneficiaries of emergency accommodation or temporary rehousing , people occupying premises whose rent is less than an amount determined by the municipal council, owners of a second home for which they pay housing tax.
To find out the rules applicable to your place of stay, you should contact the community of municipalities.
- Guide to Fixed Rate Billing
- Shows fixed prices
- Guide to proportional rate billing
- Proportional rate poster
- Landlord's register of actual tourist tax
Since 2019:
The hosts of Puisaye-Forterre received a letter from the Community of Municipalities in October 2018 regarding the 2019 Reform on the tourist tax and the additional tax to the tourist tax. You can download the documents relating to these changes below.
Furthermore, note that the registers and price posters will be updated and a website for declaring the tourist tax online will be created before April 1, 2019. You will find all the elements relating to the tax there and each host will have private access to declare oneself.
- 2019 Reform of the Tourist Tax
- Additional tax – informative document from the Departmental Council 89
- Platform for information, declaration and payment of tourist taxes of the Community of Communes of Puisaye Forterre: Puisayeforterre.taxesejour.fr
For more information, please contact the community of communes of Puisaye-Forterre 03 86 74 19 19.
