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Status: partial. Gridbeds works out the tourist tax, shows it to guests booking on your website and charges it on the bill and the invoice. It does not prepare payments to the comune, periodic returns or the annual declaration: those stay with you.

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What the law asks

Each comune sets its own tourist tax by regulation (art. 4 D.Lgs. 23/2011): rates, exemptions, the maximum number of nights, and payment and reporting deadlines differ from comune to comune. The property’s operator is responsible for paying the tax, with the right to recover it from the guest (art. 180 D.L. 34/2020), and files an annual return by 30 June of the following year, on the form approved by D.M. 29 April 2022, through the Agenzia delle Entrate’s online services. For short lets paid through a portal (OTA) that collects the rent, the portal is responsible (art. 4, c. 5-ter, D.L. 50/2017). In 2026 some comuni apply exceptional increases (for example the comuni of the Milano-Cortina Games): always check your comune’s resolution.

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Setting it up

The tax applies only when the property’s switch is on and at least one valid rule exists.
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Switch the tax on for the property

On the property’s page, Payments tab, Tourist tax card: turn on Charge tourist tax for stays here. The same switch is in Settings → Italy (“Levies a tourist tax”).
2

Add the rule

In the same card, Tourist tax rules → Add rule:
  • Rate (per person / night);
  • Capped nights — “Charge at most this many nights per stay. Empty means no cap.”;
  • Exempt children — exempts every child and infant on the booking;
  • Exempt guests per stay — a fixed number of exempt guests (a driver or a tour leader, for instance);
  • Valid from and Valid to (optional). Click Save rule.
3

Or one rule for the whole comune

With several properties in one comune, create Org-wide tourist tax rules in Settings → Tourist tax, with the 6-character Municipality (ISTAT/administrative) code. They apply to every property whose ISTAT comune code in Settings → Italy matches, unless the property has its own rules.

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How it is worked out

Taxable guests × nights (up to the cap) × rate. The rule active on the check-in date applies to the whole stay; among several rules, the one with the latest Valid from wins, and a property rule wins over the comune’s. The tax appears on the bill and the invoice on a line of its own, “Tassa di soggiorno”, without VAT (nature N1, excluded from the taxable base as a sum collected for the comune) and never discounted. Guests booking on your website see it in the quote.
What the calculation cannot do today:
  • age bands (for example exempt under 14 and half rate up to 18): the children exemption is all or nothing, and website bookings do not record children;
  • percentage rates on the room price, or different rates by season within one rule (create several rules with dates);
  • exempting one guest on one booking (residents, patients and carers, police…): Exempt guests per stay applies to every stay under the rule. Keep a note of exemptions for your return to the comune, and check with your accountant how to correct the amount on the invoice;
  • if you change a rule, stays already booked are recalculated with the new one: check before changing rates mid-year.

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What is left to you

  • Payments to the comune on the dates its regulation sets (monthly, quarterly…).
  • Periodic returns on the comune’s portal (many comuni use dedicated portals, Rome and Venice among them).
  • The annual return by 30 June.
  • Venice: guests of accommodation are exempt from the access fee, but each needs an exemption voucher from the Comune’s portal; Gridbeds is not connected to the Comune’s system, so the voucher comes from the tourist-tax portal or the guest.
The Invoices list (the “Tassa di soggiorno” lines) and Export Bookings help you with the figures.

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Sources

  • D.Lgs. 14 March 2011, n. 23, art. 4; D.L. 19 May 2020, n. 34, art. 180; D.M. 29 April 2022 (return form)
  • D.L. 24 April 2017, n. 50, art. 4, c. 5-ter
  • Comune di Venezia, access fee — exemptions
  • Your comune’s regulation and rate resolution