Tourist tax – seasonal exemption by check-in month and disability exemption

Hello Solidres team,

I would like to suggest two improvements regarding the tourist tax configuration, both required to comply with Italian municipal regulations.


1. SEASONAL EXEMPTION

In Italy, many municipalities apply the tourist tax only during certain months of the year. For example, the municipality of Valeggio sul Mincio (Verona) exempts accommodations from the tourist tax during January, February and March.

Currently, Solidres does not provide any way to configure a date range or specific months during which the tourist tax should be applied or exempted. The only workaround is to manually enable/disable the tourist tax in the property settings, but this does not work correctly when guests book in advance: a guest booking in February for an April stay must be charged the tourist tax, while a guest booking in February for a March stay must not. The manual toggle approach fails completely in this scenario.

Suggested solution: add a configuration option in the tourist tax section of the property settings, allowing the administrator to define active months (e.g. April to December) or exempt months (e.g. January, February, March). The system should evaluate the check-in date to determine whether the tourist tax applies, regardless of when the reservation is made.

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2. DISABILITY EXEMPTION

Italian municipal regulations also typically exempt guests with disabilities (and in some cases their accompanying caregiver) from the tourist tax. Currently there is no way in Solidres to flag a guest as exempt from the tourist tax due to disability, meaning the tax is always calculated on all guests regardless of their condition.

Suggested solution: add an optional field in the reservation form (or in the guest profile) to mark one or more guests as exempt due to disability. These guests should be excluded from the tourist tax headcount, reducing the total amount accordingly.

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Both of these are common requirements across Italian municipalities and likely apply to other European countries as well. They are not edge cases: virtually every Italian accommodation that uses a tourist tax is subject to these rules by law.

Thank you for considering these requests.

Best regards