234 To 1500
Poland charges a tourist fee in 234 of its municipalities. The law its lower house passed on Friday opens that to about 1,500.
Today a town qualifies only if it has favourable climatic properties as well as landscape merit. The new text keeps landscape merit and drops the climate test, and the government's own impact assessment puts the reach at about 1,500 municipalities.
Then it changes who collects.
If you hold Polish stock you are probably collecting already. The impact assessment, in translation, on the position today: collection is "in most cases carried out by appointed collectors of…
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