Vacation rentals in favor of an ecotax that is allocated exclusively to public housing

Ascav believes that with the proceeds from the ecotax «It must be used solely and exclusively to facilitate access to housing throughout the archipelago either through the public promotion of housing, or by guaranteeing and guaranteeing the payment of rental income,” they stated in a statement.

«The owners of holiday homes in the Canary Islands also live on the islands, not on Mars. And also They, their families or acquaintances suffer from the housing problem, as the rest of the citizens suffer,” Ascav has pointed out regarding the controversy in the tourism business that surrounds the Canary Islands.

Once again, as they did in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and the eruption of the La Palma volcano in which they offered their homes free of charge to those who needed it for those reasons, Ascav remembers that it is committed to ensuring that tourism « “benefits the entire Canarian society in a real and direct way.”

Ascav also reiterates that the Canary Islands are the only Autonomous Community in all of Spain where The holiday home is subject to the payment of the IGIC. This condition was voluntarily negotiated with the Government of the Canary Islands, providing more than 140 million to the public coffers per year.

The Canarian Vacation Rental Association has carried out a survey among its members, resulting in the 81.1% are in favor of the ecotax in tourist accommodation on the islands.

According to the Association’s first estimates, the Canary Islands could raise, nothing more and nothing less, than 48 million euros annually (through an ecotax of €0.50 per tourist per day staying in a tourist establishment in the archipelago).