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Italy: “Airbnb fee can harm consumers”

 |  November 27, 2017

“The so-called ‘Airbnb fee’ introduced by the corrective action on the issue of short-term tax arrangements’ appears to be potentially suitable to alter the competitive dynamics between the various operators, with possible negative effects on end-users of short lease services.” said the Italian Antitrust Authority in a report to the House Chancellors.

The Authority is said to be “fully aware that the intervention of the legislator aims to achieve a public interest of a fiscal nature and to counteract the phenomenon of evasion.” That being said, the regulator observes that “the introduction of those obligations is not proportionate to the pursuit of those aims, since it is considered that they could be pursued equally effectively by means which do not at the same time give rise to possible distortions of competition in the sector.’

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