{"id":119874,"date":"2019-09-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/tourists-could-pay-a-tax-dedicated-to-tourism-promotion\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:26:33","slug":"tourists-could-pay-a-tax-dedicated-to-tourism-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/tourists-could-pay-a-tax-dedicated-to-tourism-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists Could Pay a Tax Dedicated to Tourism Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Tourists will have to pay a tax of at least 1% of the total cost of the accommodation service for tourism promotion, according to an amendment to the draft Tourism Law voted on in the Senate&#8217;s economic, industries, and services committee.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hoteliers will be the ones collecting this tax, and local authorities will be legally obligated to impose and decide its amount.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The new tax will be collected by accommodation service providers and cannot be less than 1% of the total value of accommodation services, excluding meals and other related services.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Currently, such a tax is provided as optional in the Fiscal Code, but through this amendment, the tax will become mandatory.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Antal Istvan-Lorant put forward the example of the Cluj-Napoca metropolis, where, following such a tax in the amount of 2 lei\/tourist per night, annual funds of 1 million euros are collected for tourism promotion, and in the municipality of Covasna, a similar tax of 1 leu brings in funds of 600,000 lei annually.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now, the law thus amended will be sent with a favorable adoption report to the Senate plenary, with the final decision on the project to be made by the Chamber of Deputies.<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profit.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Profit<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>What is the minimum value of the new tourism promotion tax?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The minimum value of the tax will be 1% of the total cost of accommodation services, excluding meals and other related services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who will collect this tax and who decides its amount?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tax will be collected by hoteliers and accommodation service providers, while local authorities will decide the exact amount and will be legally obligated to impose it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this tax already in effect?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Currently, the project has received a favorable report in the Senate committee and is set to be voted on in the Senate plenary and then in the Chamber of Deputies for the final decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists will have to pay a tax of at least 1% of the total cost of the accommodation service for tourism promotion, according to an amendment to the draft Tourism Law voted on in the Senate&#8217;s economic, industries, and services committee.&nbsp; Hoteliers will be the ones collecting this tax, and local authorities will be legally&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-119874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119874"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=119874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}