Tourism/Finance Bill: Individuals renting out rooms will not be registered as a business

2024-03-06 11:47:00, Ekonomi CNA

Tourism/Finance Bill: Individuals renting out rooms will not be registered as a

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Any individual who rents out rooms, apartments or villas through "AirBnB" or "Booking" for tourist purposes, will not have the legal obligation to register with the National Business Center as an accommodation structure, as it offers seasonal activity (2- 3 months during the summer or a period during the Christmas holiday).

The Ministry of Finance proposed this facility in the parliamentary committee of Productive Activity, changing the initial draft of the draft law on tourism, which provided for the registration of each unit in the KKB.

Only entrepreneurs who have apartment blocks, those who have "Accommodation structures of cultural heritage" and "Distributed Hotel" which is composed of houses, apartments or rooms located in buildings, will have the obligation to register with the CKB. separate, managed by the same tourist entrepreneur.

Individuals or citizens who belong to this category will have to obtain a categorization certificate from the Ministry of Tourism according to the standards of the room, apartment or villa.

"The individual lessor for the categories, room, apartment or villa, before exercising the activity, submits to the Ministry of Tourism the request for a categorization certificate according to the defined criteria. We find it a bit quick to register these categories as a business. We have many individuals who rent out their premises as a room, villa or apartment and do not rent them out for tourism purposes all the time and for a certain period they rent them out.

The proposal of the Ministry of Finance only for those individuals who have an apartment, have a villa, or a room and rent it for tourist purposes, not to register in the CKB as a business, but to rent the apartments in certain periods , to pay the tax obligations from this income once a year through the declaration of personal income, without having to be equipped with a NIPT and receive other fiscal burdens such as the payment of contributions or even other obligations that are added to from the local government. Therefore, this relief should be made for this category", said the Deputy Minister of Finance, Vasilika Vjero.

The draft provides that if these citizens rent the property without obtaining the classification certificate, they will be fined 20-50 thousand ALL. This category mainly includes families that do not engage in tourism throughout the year, but rent out a property they own to vacationers only in the summer season.

With the approval of the changes in the draft law on tourism, the fine for accommodation structures that do not declare to the ministry the number of visitors, nights of stay, their citizenship, residence, gender and age is reduced from 150,000 to 100,000 ALL./Monitor