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What lodging taxes do you collect for France?
From January 1, 2019, vacation rental platforms like us are now responsible for calculating, collecting, and remitting the stay tax “au réel” wherever applicable in France. We get our data for calculating the applicable taxes directly from the French government, in a file that is updated twice a year. We do not collect information individually from jurisdictions anymore and cities must publish their tax rates through the government's file.
Classification rating
You must add your property’s classification rating and property type to ensure you have the most accurate lodging tax rate. The classification rating, given by Atout France (the France Tourism Development Agency), is a star rating based on a scale of one through five and is determined by characteristics of the property.
You will see a card in your dashboard asking you to add your property type and classification rating. Click Add classification now and fill out the required information. If you have not received a classification, select the Unclassified option. After you confirm your selections, you can see your updated tax rate under the Taxes section on the Rates settings page.
Paris
We collect Taxe de séjour for all reservations in the city of Paris for applicable travelers. The taxes are remitted by us directly to the city. We began collecting and remitting in Paris on August 1, 2017.
Other Cities
We collect Taxe de séjour for all reservations in many cities that are not in Forfait (taxes paid by owner) in France for applicable travelers. The taxes are remitted by us directly to the commune which manages that city. We began collecting and remitting in French cities on various dates during 2018 (~1500), with the remainder of the cities (~14,000) launched on January 1, 2019.
Please see below for a complete list.
Classification rating
You must add your property’s classification rating and property type to ensure you have the most accurate lodging tax rate. The classification rating, given by Atout France (the France Tourism Development Agency), is a star rating based on a scale of one through five and is determined by characteristics of the property.
You will see a card in your dashboard asking you to add your property type and classification rating. Click Add classification now and fill out the required information. If you have not received a classification, select the Unclassified option. After you confirm your selections, you can see your updated tax rate under the Taxes section on the Rates settings page.
Paris
We collect Taxe de séjour for all reservations in the city of Paris for applicable travelers. The taxes are remitted by us directly to the city. We began collecting and remitting in Paris on August 1, 2017.
Other Cities
We collect Taxe de séjour for all reservations in many cities that are not in Forfait (taxes paid by owner) in France for applicable travelers. The taxes are remitted by us directly to the commune which manages that city. We began collecting and remitting in French cities on various dates during 2018 (~1500), with the remainder of the cities (~14,000) launched on January 1, 2019.
Please see below for a complete list.
| Tax Collected and Remitted | Jurisdiction | Collection/Remittance Begins |
| Taxe de séjour | Nice Marseille Bordeaux Montpellier Lyon Strasbourg Toulouse Lille Nantes Rennes Cannes Biarritz Ajaccio Cavalaire-sur-Mer Versailles La Baule Escoublac Six-Fours-les-Plages Deauville Le Barcarès Toulon Fécamp Ramatuelle | January 1, 2018 |
| Agde Aix-en-Provence Annecy Antibes Arcachon Avignon Bourg-Saint-Maurice Cassis Chamonix Fréjus Gérardmer Huez Hyères La Rochelle Lacanau Menton Morzine Saint-Malo Saint-Martin-de-Belleville Saint-Raphaël Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Sainte-Maxime Sète Tignes | January 15, 2018 | |
| Arles Bandol Cabourg Carcassonne Collioure Colmar Concarneau Crozon Hendaye Honfleur Le Lavandou Le Touquet Lège-Cap-Ferret Les Houches Mâcot-la-Plagne Mont-de-Lans Roquebrune-sur-Argens Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Saint-Jean-de-Luz Sanary-sur-Mer Sarlat-la-Canéda | February 1, 2018 | |
| Anglet Cagnes-sur-Mer Capbreton Châtel Grimaud Gujan-Mestras La Ciotat La Communauté d’Agglomération des Sables d’Olonne La Communauté d’Agglomération Royan Atlantique La Communauté de Communes de la Côte d’Emeraude La Communauté de Communes de Mimizan La Communauté de Communes du Pays Bigouden Sud La Communauté de Communes du Pays d’Uzès La Croix Valmer La Teste de Buch Méribel – Les Allues Narbonne Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer Saint-Lary-Soulan Soorts-Hossegor Val-d’Isère Villefranche-sur-Mer | February 15, 2018 | |
| Agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée Arâches-la-Frasse Carnac Cancale Châtelaillon-Plage Clohars-Carnoët Communauté d'agglomération de La Rochelle Communauté de Communes Pays de Saint-Gilles Croix de Vie Fouesnant - Les Glénan La Clusaz La Seyne-sur-Mer Loctudy Mandelieu-La Napoule Marseillan Palavas-les-Flots Pornic Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz Quiberon Quimperlé Communauté Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez Saint-Laurent-du-Var Saint-Malo Agglomération Seignosse Trouville-sur-Mer Vallauris Golfe Juan Vence Vénosc | March 1, 2018 | |
| Villers-sur-Mer Le Cannet Dijon Métropole Le Plan-de-la-Tour Communauté de Communes Pyrénées Haut garonnaises Les Gets Saint-Paul-de-Vence Beaune Côte et Sud Communauté de communes du Pays d'Iroise Tours Métropole Val-de-Loire Communauté de communes des Vallées d'Aigueblanche Communauté d'Agglomération Dracénoise Communauté de communes du Val d'Amboise Communauté de communes du Pays Léonard Gassin Arès Saint-Tropez Tourrettes-sur-Loup Labenne Communauté de communes Vaison Ventoux Bordeaux Métropole Grand Lyon Métropole Eurométropole de Strasbourg Douarnenez Communauté Le Cannet des Maures Moliets-et-Maa Morgat | May 1, 2018 | |
| Toulouse Métropole Métropole européenne de Lille Nantes Métropole Rennes Métropole Communauté d'agglomération du pays ajaccien Agglomération Fécamp Caux Littoral Communauté de communes de la Vallée de Chamonix Mont-Blanc Communauté d'agglomération de La Rochelle Communauté d'agglomération Var Esterel Méditerranée Communauté de communes Vallée des Baux-Alpilles Territoire du Grand Annecy Communauté de communes des Hautes Vosges Communauté de Communes Médoc Atlantique Carcassonne Agglo Syndicat Intercommunal de la Grande Plagne Communauté de communes du Pays d'Honfleur-Beuzeville Communauté de communes Sarlat Périgord Noir Communauté de communes Presqu'île de Crozon - Aulne maritime Communauté de communes Normandie Cabourg - Pays d'Auge | September 15, 2018 |