Tourist tax

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bornintheuk
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Why would anyone be surprised. Not the French government as they get more money ( actually it should be the local tourist organisation who gets it, but lets see how that works !) and certainly not corporate America. If it ain't in dollars they dont know what it is !

This is part of a response I received from our local area responsible for collecting the Taxe de sejour.

Comme vous le savez, les plateformes intermédiaires de paiement (type Airbnb, HomeAway...etc) sont dans l'obligation à partir du 1er janvier 2019 de collecter la taxe de séjour pour leur clientèle et de la reverser aux collectivités gestionnaires. La collecte sera opérée en tenant compte des informations renseignées préalablement par les collectivités dans le logiciel OCSITAN.

So are AirBNB et al just following procedures laid down by the collectives ?
What would Plato do ?
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