Regarding the accommodation tax collected from people staying at hotels and other facilities in Tokyo, the Tokyo Metropolitan Tax Advisory Committee has compiled a report that it is appropriate to raise the tax level, citing the increase in expenses required for tourism promotion.
In order to use it for measures to promote tourism, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has introduced an accommodation tax collected from people who stay at hotels and other facilities in Tokyo since 2002, and 1 yen per person per night is taxed
▽1 yen if the fee is ▽1,1 yen or more and 5000 yen
if it is 100,1 yen or more.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the cost of tourism promotion has increased amid the growing demand for travel, and this fiscal year it exceeded 5000 billion yen, nearly 200 times that of fiscal 2002.
The
Tokyo Metropolitan Tax Research Committee compiled a report stating that it is appropriate to raise the tax level due to the increase
in expenses necessary for tourism promotion and the high cost of accommodation rates like foreign-affiliated luxury hotels, and handed it to
Governor Koike on the 14th.
The report states that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government should respond to the increase in accommodation fees by establishing new tax rate classifications according to rates, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will consider reviewing them in the future.