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Bamberg Tourist Tax |
| Posted by Gerhard Schoolmann on 2017-09-01 01:45:56 |
| Cities need more than 490.000 nights of tourists per year, ir they want to tax . Bamberg has reached this limit a few years ago. In the year 2016: 659.854 nights. We have a political discusssion about the tax: - the high of the rate, maybe different for hotels, appartments, campsites - if only hotels and other providers of nights have to pay - or if also restaurants, shops and other enterprises which makes sales with tourists have to pay - which area of Bamberg have to pay: only in the old part of the city or also the areas of Bamberg-Ost (with the Café Abseits), the Gartenstadt, Bug, Wildensorg etc., with few tourists. And some policians are against such a tax in principle. Another problem of such a tax is, that professional visitors (salesman, workers etc.) have not to pay such a night tax. The hotels have to ask, if the visit is professional or touristic and to ask for documents, p.e. a letter of the employer. With this document they can prove the tax exemption. Very bureaucratic. |