Obligations for holiday house owners in the Ražanac municipality

OBLIGATIONS FOR HOLIDAY HOUSE OWNERS IN RAŽANAC MUNICIPALITY

Those liable to pay the tourist tax are all persons who own a house, apartment or flat for vacation in the municipality/city, for themselves and all persons who spend the night in that house, apartment or flat. A house, apartment or vacation apartment is considered any building, house or apartment that is used occasionally or seasonally, and which is not an accommodation facility that provides household services. The owner of a house, apartment or vacation apartment is obliged to register all persons staying in that house, apartment in the eVisitor system within 24 hours of arrival and to deregister their stay on the last day of their stay. Owners of a holiday house, apartment or apartment and all persons who spend the night in that house, apartment or apartment pay the tourist tax for each overnight stay. The owner of a house, apartment or vacation apartment and members of his immediate family pay the tourist tax reduced by 70% when they stay in a house, apartment or vacation apartment in a municipality or city outside their place of residence in the period from June 15 to September 15. They are obliged to pay the tourist tax on the last day of their stay in the house or apartment. The tourist tax per night is HRK 10.00 or EUR 1.33. Exceptionally, the owner of a house, apartment or holiday flat can pay the tourist tax in an annual fixed rate for himself and members of his immediate family. The flat rate tourist tax can be paid by the July 15 of the current year.

Flat rate tourist tax:

For the first two family members(per person)

60,00 kn or 7,97 Eura

For every next family member (per person)

25,00 kn or 3,32 Eura

 

In addition to Croatian citizens, the payment of the tourist tax also applies to citizens of other contracting states of the Treaty on the European Economic Area and the Swiss Confederation.

Members of the immediate family are considered to be: spouse and common-law partner, life partner in accordance with a special regulation regulating the life partnership of persons of the same sex, relatives in the direct line and their spouses, brothers and sisters and their spouses, adoptive parents and adopted children and their children and spouses, friends, stepchildren and stepmother and stepfather.

Persons exempted from paying the tourist tax are:

·         children up to 12 years old

·         persons with a disability of 70 percent or more and one companion

·         persons who, due to the need to work or perform tasks, use the accommodation service in a municipality or city where they do not have a residence, exclusively during the performance of tasks/work

·         professional crew members on charter vessels and multi-day cruise ships

·         participants of school package-arrangements with accommodation included, approved by school institutions

·         persons who use the overnight service as part of exercising their right to accommodation as beneficiaries of social welfare

·         students and pupils who do not reside in the municipality or city where they are studying, when they stay in an accommodation facility in that municipality or city.

Tourist tax reduced by 50 percent is paid by:

         persons aged 12 to 18

         persons up to 29 years of age who are members of international youth organizations when they use overnight services in youth accommodation facilities that are included in the international network of youth accommodation facilities (Hosteling International).

With the publication of the Ordinance on the manner of keeping a list of tourists and on the form and content of the tourist registration form for the tourist community, a new system for registration and de-registration of tourists in the Republic of Croatia - eVisitor - was introduced on 01.01.2016.

 

Tourist check-in and tourist check-out of your guests is possible only through the eVisitor system at the link: https://www.evisitor.hr/

 

The eVisitor system is used for check-in and checing-out tourists and collecting and processing data on accommodation service providers and their accommodation facilities, and is extremely important for calculating and controlling the collection of residence tax as well as for processing and analyzing data for statistical reports in real time and is available free of charge to all users via the Internet as a web application without the need to install it on a computer. More than 60,000 registered accommodation service providers, around 300 tourist boards and state administration bodies related to the performance of tasks within their competence (Tourist Inspection, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Tax Administration, State Bureau of Statistics, etc.) have access to this system.

To download access data (TAN LIST) for use with the eVisitor system, you must bring with you:

·         -certificate of ownership

·         -identity card

·         -fill in the form for data entry in eVisitor

·         -fill in the Declaration for owners of holiday homes in Ražanac municipality

The tourist tax is paid by payment to the account of the tourist board, which can be downloaded from the eVisitor system.

Payment information:

Recipient: TZ OPĆINE RAŽANAC

Recipient's account number: HR17 1001 0051 7371 0474 0

Model: 67

Invitation to the approval number: OIB

Payment description: UPLATA TURISTIČKE PRISTOJBE