Special tax called "Environmental fee" or otherwise "Climate Crisis Resilience Fee"

[Stylianos10]

Good morning .

I am renting an entire house for a vacation in Greece.
There is a special tax called "Environmental fee" or otherwise "Climate Crisis Resilience Fee" whose cost is 1.5€ per day of stay.
I did not find any setting to include it in the taxes, nor does RBNB include it in the final price, on the contrary, the booking has the tax included in the total paid by the guest.
Do you know what to do in such a case? How can I include this special tax in the total price that the visitor sees?

[Rebecca]

Hello @Stylianos10 👋

I found this article that I think should help you in the right direction: How to add taxes to listings

Please let me know how you get on with it! 😊

[Alicia753]

Hi Stylianos,

You may want to check the options on your listing settings:

1. Click Listings and select the listing you want to edit
2. Under Listing editor, click Edit preferences 
3. Click Taxes and then tap Add a tax
4. Choose the Tax type and the Type of charge
5. Enter the Amount being collected
6. Add your Business tax ID and Accommodation tax registration number
7. Choose whether your region provides an exemption for long-term stays (if you choose Yes, you’ll be given the option to provide additional details)
8. Agree to the terms and click Save

Another option is, to mention the additional fee in your listing description. Inform guests that an environmental fee of 1.5€ per day will be added to the total price. You can handle this fee separately upon check-in or check-out using the Resolution Center page.

I hope this helps!

All the best,

Upfish Management

[Eva3980]

Hi @Alicia753!

For step 4 that you described (Taxes -> Add a tax), I don't see the Add a tax option. Has this changed?

Thanks!

[Vasilis53]

Γειά σου Ευα! Αν ενδιαφέρεσαι ακόμη, ενεργοποιείς το Professional Hosting Tools στις ρυθμίσεις του λογαριασμού σου (Account Settings) και εμφανίζεται το 'Add Tax' στα Edit Preferences του Listing σου. Το θέμα είναι ότι δεν είμαι σίγουρος τι τύπο Tax επιλέγει κανείς στο dropdown menu που να ταιριάζει με το τέλος ανθεκτικότητας και από ότι φαίνεται, δεν έχει συμπεριληφθεί στις επιλογές, οπότε μάλλον η πρόχειρη και ατελής λύση είναι η ενσωμάτωση του τέλους στην τιμή που βάζεις στην πλατφόρμα και η σχετική ενημέρωση των πελατών.

Βασίλης

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Google Translation added by Community Manager:  

Hi @Eva3980 ! If you are still interested, activate Professional Hosting Tools in your Account Settings and 'Add Tax' will appear in your Listing's Edit Preferences. 

The thing is, I'm not sure what type of Tax one selects in the dropdown menu that matches the durability fee and it seems that it hasn't been included in the options, so the rough and incomplete solution is probably to integrate the fee into the price you put on the platform and inform customers accordingly.

Vasilis

[Kumsal1]

@Stylianos10 , @Eva3980 , @Vasilis53 , @Rebecca 

I don't have Professional Hosting Tools turned on, but I can still add the taxes as mentioned above.

The problem however is the amount of the tax depends on the season, although Airbnb continues to ignore this, even after it's been more than a year these taxes has been introduced. It is a task that would maybe take 5 minutes for a programmer to add, but Airbnb still couldn't offer that feature for some reason.

The existing solutions are problematic in different ways:

1) If you add a note to your listing that you will collect the tax separately, that is possible that some guests won't read this information and you might risk getting a bad review just for that. Additionally, it might be operationally difficult for some hosts, especially when self check in is offered.

2) If you integrate the taxes to your nightly price, then at the end of the year you are also taxed according to the total income including the amount collected for the taxes. So, you basically pay tax of the taxes. That option also affects your competition with other listings, as your price displayed to the potential guests includes the taxes and therefore higher, whereas some other hosts prefer to collect the taxes individually on arrival with lower prices advertised. If you would like to compensate for the extra tax paid for the taxes, you should even increase your rates more than the actual amount of the tax.

Hope Airbnb will decide to offer that simple feature soon, rather than focusing on less important updates or campaigns.