Tourist tax in Santiago de Compostela: everything you need to know

If you have a holiday rental property or rural tourism accommodation, this measure directly affects you: from 1 October 2025, Santiago de Compostela applies a tax on tourist stays.

💶 How much is payable?

Tourist-use homes (VUT): 2 € per person per night (max. 5 nights).

Rural tourism: 1 € per person per night (max. 5 nights).
These amounts correspond to the regional tourist accommodation tax rates, to which the Concello applies a 100% surcharge

Quick examples

• Couple in a holiday let, 3 nights: 2 € × 2 people × 3 nights = 12 €.
• Group of 4 in a rural holiday home, 6 nights: €1 × 4 × 5 nights (maximum) = 20 €.

🙅 Who does not have to pay?

Not all guests have to pay the tax. The ordinance sets out cases not subject to the tax and several exemptions:

• Stays for health reasons (patients and accompanying persons).
• Stays by athletes registered with a sports federation in official competitions.
• Stays for force majeure circumstances duly substantiated.
• Minors who are not legally emancipated.
• People with a disability rating of ≥65 %.
• Stays subsidised by social programmes of a public authority in any EU Member State.

To apply these exemptions and cases where the tax does not apply, documentary evidence of the relevant circumstances is essential.  

📑 How do you administer it?

• As the owner or manager, you must collect the tax from the guest.

💡 Collect your tourist tax directly through the check-in form with iButlers.

• Afterwards, you will complete the online tax self-assessment with the Concello:
  • From 1 to 20 July (for stays from January to June)
  • From 1 to 20 January (for stays from July to December)
  • 👉 Self-assessment here