Vacation homes rentals faces scrutiny from legislators and jurists in the boom of this modality that only during 2015 totaled 28.188 registered homes, representing an economic impact in the tourism sector of 528 million.
Rent an apartment for short periods of time, in the heat of the success of collaborative economics as Airbnb banners, It has become a business for many homeowners, that he neglected the rent for long periods. Exceltur (the tourism lobby comprising a 23 of the largest companies of the sector) estimated that last year closed with a park of 1,7 millions of homes of tourist use. I.e., According to figures from the traditional sector, currently there is a tourist apartment every two regulated places. In the Canary Islands, Airbnb and Homeway monopolize the 49% offer.
In Spain, It is the State which has the powers to control housing advertising in different web platforms. Communities, on the other hand ,the autonomous communities are those regulating the censuses of housing and the conditions to be fulfilled and councils are those who have authority to inspect if a building has or no license to operate for the purpose of tourist accommodation.
Each community, In addition, It establishes its own regulations and requirements for the rentals. In the Canary Islands, to start, must be taxed by the Canarian indirect General tax (IGIC) with a type of the 7%, that should be included and reflected in the invoice (in terms of personal income tax, the performance derived from rent a flat taxed to the general scale of the tax and the owner, explains the area Prosecutor's Office Manager Sanahuja Miranda, "can not continue to apply the deduction by residence").
The law published in May of 2015, two days after regional elections, It requires that these homes have sheets for complaints and claims official, the houses have a distinctive, to carry out a responsible statement in the official records and that the police have information on tenants. Canary Islands legislation, In addition, These homes may not be located in tourist soils that are within the tourist areas or tourist residential tourist or mixed developments.
Tom Smulders, the President of the patron saint of extrahotel and Vice President of the Employers Federation of hospitality and tourism (FEHT) Las Palmas. "In tourist areas in which saw model is fully valid is not compatible vacation rentals, and this has to be understood all over the world".
The partner of Deloitte Juan Martínez Calvo, He protested this week at a Conference on the tourist rental against the current "regulatory dispersion" on this aspect. Martínez Calvo emphasis placed on the differences between the different regional laws in force and claimed that future legislation "to hold in the long run" and "you do not contradict each other", reports Álvaro Bayón. The Minister of tourism, Culture and sports of the regional government, Maria Teresa Lawrence, It has assured repeatedly, However, the regional Executive is willing to tweak the Decree 113/2015 of the 22 may.
In this sense, the new Secretary of State for tourism, Matilde Asian, already announced at the end of the year in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in one of his first public interventions after his appointment, the central Government is willing to discuss with the autonomous legislation harmonizing the regulation of vacation rentals in all Spain on three bases
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