Tourist tax is not allowed in Sweden. Meit Fohlin (S), chairman of the Gotland Regional Board, wants to change that, reports SR Echo.
”"It is important that tourism continues to be an important industry and then you need contributions to the local area," she tells the radio.
Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit Gotland during a few intense summer months. Many stay for several months and take advantage of the island's resources – while the tax money ends up in their home municipalities.
Meit Fohlin therefore wants a tourist tax to be allowed.
”"That you have the opportunity to pay tax during those months and that that tax goes to Gotland or where you have a summer house. That's how it is done in some other places and it would be a fairly simple solution," she says.
Source: TT-DI.SE
