- Airbnb, which pays the tourist tax for rentals made on its rental platform, announced in early January a total of 58 million euros in France for the first ten months of 2019.
- The Hauts-de-France region, which must notably receive more than 1.1 million euros, is experiencing great geographic disparities, the Lille metropolitan area collecting almost half of this amount.
- This financial windfall passes through the tax services, before being returned to the communities of municipalities.
The overnight business has a future. Airbnb has just announced that it has donated more than 58 million euros in tourist tax, collected in France over the first ten months of 2019. Including 1.1 million euros for the Hauts-de-France region , where Nord and Pas-de-Calais (619,200 and 345,000 euros) won, far ahead of the Oise (64,600), the Somme (61,000) and the Aisne (34,600).
The timpani is picked up by the metropolis of Lille. On its own, it pockets 520,000 euros, or 46.2% of the regional tourist tax ... A financial windfall "allocated to the funding of tourist offices and / or expenses intended to promote tourist attendance", indicates a deliberation of the intercommunal dating from 2015.
Wissant, 956 inhabitants and 5,900 euros
Because, after a transit through the tax offices, it is indeed the communities of communes which recover the tourist tax collected by Airbnb. Small towns that are doing well, and greatly promoted in the communication of the rental platform, no longer touch anything directly. Like Wissant (Pas-de-Calais) - less than 956 inhabitants and 5,900 euros on the counter from January to October - which must share the nest egg with its neighbors.
A breakdown made by the intermunicipal association concerned. Normally. Because for the Land of the two capes, there is a catch. According to the director of the tourist office, "the money is on hold, blocked in an account of the public treasury with impossibility of collecting it". Contacted on this subject, the services concerned have not yet provided us with an answer.
The Nord department collects the additional tax
And Sophie Jonquet goes further: "There are these amounts, announced, but the moral is that we will not touch anything in 2019. And the stuffing turkeys are the vacationers". For her, "the tourist tax is sometimes paid twice". A first by the rental company and a second by the platform because of the collection methods. Renters can collect the tax as a package, including it in an average price, and Airbnb recover the real tax, per paid night.
To gain access to the realm, like the others, the community of municipalities on the Opal Coast switched to real tourist tax in early 2020. Others are already enjoying the direct benefits of tourism. Since 2013, the Nord department has made the choice to introduce an additional tax to the tourist tax (10%), a completely legal process. In 2019, she brought him 524,106 euros.
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