Taxes
The VAT and lodging tax that apply to the hotel by its address, with a single decision of its own: whether its prices include them.
What it solves
The lodging tax varies by state, and border-zone municipalities have their own rule. Typing it by hand in each hotel guarantees that somebody types a 2 where a 3 belonged — and that difference is not paid by the hotel: it is paid by the guest on their invoice, with the hotel's name on it.
You notice it in things like these
- Everyone has a different idea of their state's rate, and all three come from hearsay.
- The published price and the invoice total do not match because the tax was added twice.
How it works
The address detects the rates
The hotel's state is matched against the catalogue, and that is where its VAT and its lodging tax come from, with the legal basis. There is no field to type a rate into: yaReserva maintains them, because a rate typed by each hotel is a different rate in each hotel.
The hotel makes exactly one decision
Whether its prices are published tax-inclusive or plus taxes. That changes what the widget says and what the guest understands they will pay, which is why the hotel decides it and not us. Confirming also records that it reviewed what was detected.
No verified rate, no publishing
If the state did not match the catalogue, or its rate is not verified yet, the hotel does not go live. There is a fallback value so nothing breaks while things are being built, but not to charge a guest a tax at a made-up rate.
Every booking seals its own breakdown
On confirmation, the booking stores how much was accommodation, how much was add-ons, how much VAT and how much lodging tax, with the rates applied that day, in the same operation as its amounts. A seal is never overwritten: reconfirming does not rewrite the base already used, and if the breakdown does not add up to the total it is not sealed — a seal that does not add up is worse than none.
Where it lives in the panel
- Hotel
- Taxes
What it needs first
The property's full address: the state comes from there, and the rate with it.
Hotel details
What it does not do yet
The limits, told by us
- The state-by-state verification is being entered by yaReserva and is on its first one: until a state's rate is verified with its legal basis, hotels in that state cannot publish.
- Of the border-zone municipalities, the northern ones are entered and none of the southern ones.
Carry on here
Shall we walk through it with your hotel on screen?
Half an hour, your rooms and your rates, and whatever questions you have. No commitment and no card.