Tourist tax
When staying overnight in a hotel, guesthouse, cottage or campground, you pay tourist tax.
This tax is charged to you by the owner of the vacation accommodation. Every year, the owner of the vacation home submits a statement to the municipality of the number of overnight stays. The owner remits the tourist tax to the municipality.
What does it cost?
The tourist tax rate in 2025 is €1.50 per person, per overnight stay.
Do you own a recreational property?
If you own a recreational home, you will receive a tourist tax assessment. Based on the number of beds in your recreation house, the municipality estimates the number of overnight stays on an annual basis. Once a year you will receive a tourist tax assessment for the previous year.
Would you like to receive an assessment based on the actual number of overnight stays?
Then you can object to the assessment. You can read how to do this in the letter accompanying the tourist tax assessment.
Are you an entrepreneur?
If you provide professional accommodation in the municipality, you are liable for tourist tax. By professional is meant: hotels, guest houses, campsites, bêd & brochjes, marinas, rental organizations, etc. At the beginning of the year you must fill out a tourist tax information form.
Fill out the form for entrepreneurs
On this form, you must indicate the number of overnight stays in the previous year. An assessment is made based on this information. You will receive this assessment during the year.
Additional Information
The regulation on the levy and collection of tourist tax can be found online.