Head of Algarve Tourism Board welcomes suspension of tourist tax

The head of the Algarve Tourism Board has welcomed news that the region’s tourist tax will be suspended to help overcome economic woes caused by the Coronavirus outbreak

in Algarve · 28 Mar 2020, 08:00 · 4 Comments

The measure was once of several announced yesterday by Algarve councils, along with the deferral of deadlines to pay water bills, among others, to help house-bound families.

The tourist tax was already being applied in Vila Real de Santo António and Faro, with other municipalities in the Algarve preparing to start applying it.

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Comments

I'm puzzled by the Tourist Tax announcement. What can it possibly affect if there are to be no tourists for the foreseeable future?
Or is it payable by tourist establishments whether or not they have clients?

By John Dee from UK on 30 Mar 2020, 16:34

In your article about Algarve tourist tax 28/3 it is headed by a photograph of a blue and white tiled staircase leading to a church? I am not familiar with this and would like to know where it is please. Thank you.

By Linda Edmond from Algarve on 01 Apr 2020, 07:57

Very wise to do this. But there are much more tax that getting down the IVA and the taxes for houses, imposto municipal sobre imoveis.

By Yvonne Koster from Algarve on 03 Apr 2020, 15:22

The Blue and white photo is of the Palace in Estoi, presumably as it used to look

By jackie robinson from UK on 08 Apr 2020, 14:54