Overview
- The CCOO union has called for a €15 per person, per night charge limited to July and August across Mallorca, Ibiza, Menorca and Formentera.
- Current Balearic tourist tax rates range from about €0.50 to €4 per night with under-16s exempt and a 50% discount after the eighth night.
- Media estimates suggest four adults in a luxury hotel for two weeks in peak season would pay about €840 in taxes, roughly £540 more than today’s rates.
- Beyond the tax, the union urges a freeze on new tourist accommodation licences, a stressed-area housing designation and construction of 40,000 social homes.
- The proposal is not government policy at this stage, and debate is intensifying given that roughly 27% of the UK’s Spain-bound travellers choose the Balearics.