Tourist Tax in Calabria

The documents in the City of Scalea website are somewhat outdated. The City Council deliberations talk of approving the same tax as in prior year, and also refer to an 'Addendum' that is not posted. The original tax in 2013 was set at Euro 1 per person per night up to 5 nights. Looking at several accommodation facilities websites I am able to see they charge now 2 Euro per person per night. The hotel websites don't mention a maximum, except for one which states up to a max. of 7 nights.

Thanks for the lead. I just wish i knew how to get the official informaiton. I have left messages and requested information from the Scalea (english) website but never get a reply

I found the document. It was in the City of Scalea's website:
http://trasparenzascalea.asmenet.it/index.php?
Just click the following choices:
Amministrazione Trasparente » Disposizioni Generali » Atti Generali » Atti amministrativi generali » Regolamenti » - REGOLAMENTI TRIBUTARI » - Regolamento applicazione tassa soggiorno

The second document in the above page is what states the fees. You can find the info at art. 5 of the "Regolamento" (which starts after the City Council deliberation document) of the pdf document (linked below). It confirms what I saw earlier in the various hotels' websites.

The maximum is indeed 7 consecutive days (as I saw in at least one hotel website).
The tax is Euro 2/night for hotels (as I saw in all hotels' websites), but it's only Euro 1,50/night for vacation homes, agriturismi, apartments, B&B. It goes down to Euro 1/night for hostels, campgrounds, bungalows, and other temporary (camping) accommodations.
The limit is 7 consecutive nights for all.

http://trasparenzascalea.asmenet.it/index.php?action=index&p=421&event=vediallegato&id=177&seq=fileupload&allegato=fileupload&bid=783

Thank you so much for the information. You saved me 53 days of tourist tax!
Grazie

or you may be depriving your landlord of 53 days of free income that he was counting on... I hope it is an honest mistake...

I doubt it Nigel, but let's discover it in the good ol' way that never fails: did he asked to be paid in cash?

When I was in Sicily (in 2015), the tourist tax was collected in cash, separate from the hotel bill which was paid by credit card. I have no way of knowing what the proprietors did with the cash, whether they reported it or not....it was a business practice not to collect the tax on the bill itself (and which I could pay for by credit card at once), which I found odd. I did not fight it, since I knew that I was on the hook for that amount no matter what. My trip was not lengthy though, it was under 7 days.

I had the same experience as Chani in 2015 on a considerably longer trip. I don't remember whether all my lodgings wanted the tax paid in cash or just some of them, but I believe booking.com warned that the city tax would be extra. These days, I think Italian lodging rates on booking.com include the city tax, but I guess you'd have to read the details for each hotel to see how it expects the tax to be paid.

It is not at all odd or unreasonable for places to require the tourist tax be paid in cash. They have to pay that amount for collection. What the business receives on a credit card payment is 2-4% less. This is not an insignificant amount for a small business to have to make up on an annual basis.

This is not an insignificant amount for a small business to have to
make up on an annual basis.

That's true. But there is also a labor cost to collect, handle, record manually, and fork over that money to the local governments. And then there's the record-keeping cost of cash, which is higher than keeping tabs electronically.

If someone can get the information from the link above it used to work and now I can’t get it to work

Sorry, they don’t work for me either and I can’t find anything else from official sources. Try at a later date. For sure at the time of my previous posting I read the documents and they stated what I said. Therefore you should not be charged more than €2 for a hotel (or €1.50 for a vacation home) per person per night for up to 7 nights maximum. When they first enacted the law there was confusion on whether that would be subject to VAT, so people wanted to be paid separately in cash. That was cleared later and now all hotels accept to be paid together with the entire hotel bill. The requirement that you are paying in cash is not something required by the law, and since July 1 this year, denying a credit card payment of any amount and requesting to be paid in cash only is illegal for all commercial entities, including operators of vacation homes, if the owner insist on being paid for 60 days of tax (and in cash) you are dealing with a tax dodger who wants to skim an extra amount on top of the rental from you. So the choices are:
1. You factor in the extra 53 days of tax requested by the landlord as additional rental fee on top of what the landlord advertised (that is what it is, an extra rental amount disguised under a tax, since the landlord won’t be paying to the City that extra tax he’s requesting from you).
2. You find other accommodations at another facility hoping the landlord will be more honest and tax compliant (fat chance in Italy!).

The link is working again thank you