Thread 2835452

Any of you fucking Germs want to tell me which Sauerkraut smelling, Weisswurst-Brezel & Hendl eating, Krustenbraten-Semmel munching, Quarkbällchen swallowing, Topfenkuchen slurping, Jagdpfandl belching fat white deceptive nigger came up with this garbage? I already payed in advance on booking.com and it stated tax was included in the price. Even after payment it says I neednt pay anything at check in. The hotel writes me and says they will add 15% of my price as Übernachtungssteuer.

>>2835452 (OP)
Charging tourists a tax is fine to offset some of the costs which tourists crate.

Not collecting this up front is fucking scummy though, and should be outright illegal.

The EU jews are easily capable of taking the total revenues from all tourist bookings made then distributing it out into decent tourist services. Why the fuck should some rando on the desk be dealing with this? So much inefficiency.

>>2835452 (OP)
It's the money needed to have "fit for your average american" super heavy duty infrastructure installed like beds that can hold up to 20'000kg or installing metal plates in the gardens that can hold up MBTs.

>>2835458
Publicly listed corpos should be responsible for footing the bill, direct from revenue raised in the given area.

>15%
It's normally around 2eur.

This practice of tacking extra government taxes onto hotels becoming prevalent all over the world. If you visit Pahang, Malaysia, you will have to pay a foreign tourism tax as well as a state lodging tax. Both will be added on top of the posted price.

>>2835453
>>2835484
Okay but what infrastructure am I using? Am I even considered a tourist?

I live in Switzerland and just wanted to chill a bit over the border. My monthly public transport card works will all public transport in that sector, so why do I still need to pay?

>reason why I am there
>Euro is currently so weak I can feast and live like a king and get some alone time gooning in my large room, while eating cheap Lidl cuisine

>>2835487
Nobody cares about edge cases. Tourists use infrastructure and require services. The most efficient way to fund this is revenue taxing the publicly listed hotel comapnies.

If you are 'a local' then just book direct with local companies.

Observe how every time nations try to implement things like digital sales taxes, they immediately get shot down. The corporate lobbyists are destroying everything. It's fucking insane that receptionists are taking random €7 payments.

>>2835487
It's the same thing as Kurtaxe, it's something like 2€/tourist night to keep the Sozialhilfe flowing.

>>2835452 (OP)
It was Angela Merkel.

In Barcelona it's like 15 euro a night. In smaller French cities it's 2 to 8 euro.

>>2835452 (OP)
Everything in Germany is a scam price wise. Well what do you expect with 65% real tax (including sucial taxes, VAT, etc)? Everything has to be absurdly expensive to make profits. And the government needs the money for israel, ukraine, immigrants, etc.

OP here!
Those fuckers forget to ask for the Übernachtungssteuer ahahahah. Saved something like 20 Euros.
4 night stay in a really really nice room modern applications heated floor, new shower head, modern lighting 15m^2 spacious room for 170 Euro.

>>2835452 (OP)
It's probably to cover germany's retarded policies, such as 'green energy', which end in abysmal failure. Russia raped them so hard that they never recovered
>pic related, Germany demolishing one of their last nuclear power plants while having some of the highest energy costs in Europe
https://www.euronews.com/2025/10/25/germany-destroys-two-nuclear-plant-cooling-towers-as-part-of-nuclear-phaseout-plan

>>2837523
Often there is a room limit on those occupancy taxes. Properties with fewer than a certain number of rooms are exempt.

>>2835453
>Charging tourists a tax is fine to offset some of the costs which tourists crate.
nigger I go to Europe, I stay in a hotel spending money, I eat food and drink, I walk a lot, I pay for transportation, I visit tourist sites and museums, I pay for tours, I go to a brothel. I'm not breaking the law, I am not breaking shit, I am not causing problems. What costs am I creating? I am spending literally thousands of dollars in your countries and not consuming any services that don't already exist.

>>2837590
Why is /trv/ suddenly being flooded with russian shills?

>>2835452 (OP)
>Übernachtungssteuer (overnight stay tax)
that is pretty common around the world
and booking com or other platforms only handle these local taxes if the property owner / hotel declares them

in this case it was the hotels fault

also why is every second post here by some massive retard who doesn't actually travel?
just stop being a whiny fag OP
you could have researched yourself and read the tax section of your booking bill

>>2837623
>muh dolllarrrzzz
How can you honestly not know the arguments after all these years?
Pricing natives out of their own nightlife and accommodation has a huuuuuuuuuuge societal cost.
Spreading globohomo does, too.

Tourism by and large creates low quality jobs and enriches the international landlordry.