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Barcelona’s city council has decided to accelerate what should have been a gradual increase in taxes on visiting cruise guests.
Officials have pledged to increase the daily tax for cruise passengers to €24, the legal maximum.
The purpose of the tax is to encourage homeporting operations while mitigating overcrowding from short port calls.
Barcelona’s plan to slowly raise its taxes on cruise passengers is simply not fast enough for local officials.
Metropoli Abierta reported that the local government agreed to immediately increase municipal taxes to the daily ma...
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