"Also called occupancy or lodging taxes, or a 'bed tax' ( Bettensteuer) in German, these taxes are levied on overnight stays in hotels, pensions, or similar tourist accommodations and are typically used by cities to support infrastructure and promote tourism. Often these taxes amount to somewhere in the range of five to ten percent of the cost of your hotel stay."
"A recent decision by Bavaria's Constitutional Court effectively confirmed that the state's decision to ban the collection of hotel taxes was legal. So for the time being, a ban on hotel taxes in Bavaria remains in place. The city of Munich was the first Bavarian city to try to introduce overnight stay taxes for hotel guests in early 2023. But the Bavarian state government responded by passing a law that stopped cities from collecting hotel taxes."
Many German states levy a local hotel tax on overnight stays in hotels, pensions, and similar tourist accommodations to support infrastructure and promote tourism. These occupancy taxes commonly amount to five to ten percent of the cost of a hotel stay and are often collected on site or included in online booking prices, with the amount noted at checkout or posted in hotel lobbies. A law change last year outlawed such taxes in Bavaria. Bavaria's Constitutional Court confirmed the legality of the state's ban, overriding municipal efforts such as Munich's attempt to introduce an overnight stay tax in early 2023.
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