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Gotland wants to tax tourists

» Updated: 24 September 2024, 14:37

» Published: 27 June 2024

Gotland wants to tax tourists
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Tourist tax is not permitted in Sweden. Meit Fohlin (S), chair of the regional board on Gotland, wants to change this, reports SR Ekot.

It is essential that tourism continues to be an important industry and then one needs to contribute to the local, she says to the radio.

Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit Gotland during a few intense summer months. Many stay for several months and utilise the island's resources – while the tax money ends up in their home municipalities.

Meit Fohlin therefore wants tourist tax to be permitted.

To have the opportunity to pay tax during those months and for that tax to go to Gotland or where one has a summer house. That's what they do in some other places, and it would be quite easily solved, she says.

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