The aim is to improve the processing and collection of penalties to facilitate management and be more effective in the prosecution of this activity.

The President of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, and the Vice President of the Balearic Islands Government and Minister of Economy, Finance and Innovation, Antoni Costa, signed a collaboration agreement on Monday between the island institution and the Balearic Islands Tax Agency (ATIB) to improve the processing and collection of penalties for illegal supply in the tourism sector.

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The Consell de Mallorca signs an agreement with the Tax Agency of the Balearic Islands to improve the fight against illegal supply in the tourism sector

As Galmés explained, until now the Department of Tourism of the Consell de Mallorca had been faced with the problem that a large percentage of these notifications were unsuccessful, mainly due to errors in the address of communication of the offence, a circumstance that the sanctioned parties used to evade their responsibility, so that a percentage of sanctions were not collected because the offenders took advantage of these incidents to lengthen the processing of sanctions, sometimes even avoiding them.
From now on, and thanks to this agreement, Tourism will be able to count on the collaboration of the ATIB, which has data and personnel resources that will make it more effective in the fight against illegal tourist rentals in Mallorca, so that the Consell de Mallorca will be much more efficient and effective in this type of management, thus discouraging illegal activity.
The aim of the agreement, which was approved in plenary by the Consell de Mallorca a few weeks ago, is that the ATIB will now collect the fines in the voluntary period, thus helping the Consell in the whole process.

Thanks to this agreement, the Consell de Mallorca will be much more efficient in its work due to the resources and experience of the ATIB, which will allow notifications to be much quicker and more successful, with the agency taking charge of the process.
From its entry into force, the ATIB will become responsible for the notification of the actions carried out in the framework of the sanctioning proceedings in the field of tourism and collection management, and subsequently, the funds will be transferred to the Consell in accordance with the agreement signed. This will put an end to the high percentage of failed notifications that currently exist, as the ATIB has personal notifiers and much more data to carry out this mission.
Galmés emphasised the importance of this agreement, which will increase the fight against this activity, whatever type it is and whatever sector it operates in. In this sense, both the president of the Consell and the councillor for Tourism, José Marcial Rodríguez, who was also present at the signing, have pledged to make progress in eliminating ‘this supply that disturbs coexistence’ and ‘shakes up the market, affecting all those who do things well on our island, who are the vast majority’.