Comments on: Politicians in Spain’s Barcelona vote to DOUBLE tourist tax by 2029 https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2025/07/29/politicians-in-spains-barcelona-vote-to-double-tourist-tax-by-2029/ Best Expat Newspaper in Spain Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:54:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mark https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2025/07/29/politicians-in-spains-barcelona-vote-to-double-tourist-tax-by-2029/#comment-520801 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:54:42 +0000 https://www.theolivepress.es/?p=426418#comment-520801 “The more tourists pay, the less residents will have to.”
Time of course will tell, but I will bet a few bob that Catalan residents taxes don’t go down!
And of course that presuposes that the number of tourists stay at today’s levels, but the whole idea of the tax is to discourage tourism! Are we going to witness a miracle over the next 4 years?

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