Text file: 8836.txt
author: ds1
downvotes: 6
end consideration date: 2018-01-01
id: '8836'
number comments: 1
number views: 2184
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology\nAt its\
  \ 72nd Correspondence Session on 23 September 2015, the Government of the Republic\
  \ of Slovenia appointed an inter-ministerial working group to prepare an action\
  \ plan for the modernisation of the regulations governing the short-term letting\
  \ of real estate to tourists (hereinafter referred to as the \"inter-ministerial\
  \ working group\").\nThe Inter-Ministerial Working Group primarily sought solutions\
  \ to update the rules and requirements for those landlords who either rent out a\
  \ part of their home where they otherwise reside or rent out a property at an address\
  \ where they otherwise have a permanent residence (which generally meets the definition\
  \ of the sharing economy), further to the modernisation of the rules on the payment\
  \ of pension, invalidity and health insurance contributions, as well as to the change\
  \ in the level of the percentage of consent required in multi-apartment buildings\
  \ and, further, in the context of personal supplementary work, as well as to the\
  \ possibility of flat-rate taxation, or 'flat-rate' taxation. However, the proposed\
  \ solutions were not accepted by the relevant ministries.\nThis also applies to\
  \ the initiative in so far as it concerns the 'double' payment of social contributions\
  \ for pension and health insurance, as well as the implementation of the rules in\
  \ the field of financial management, including the payment of taxes.\nNo solutions\
  \ could be found within the inter-ministerial working group that would lead to an\
  \ update of the regulations, except in the portfolio area of the Ministry of Economic\
  \ Development and Technology (MoEDT). Similarly, none of the other ministries, except\
  \ MoEDT, which participated in the inter-ministerial working group, plan to amend\
  \ the legislation concerning the short-term letting of real estate to tourists.\n\
  For the reasons given above, the inter-ministerial working group was not able to\
  \ adopt an action plan, but only guidelines and a proposal to consider legislation\
  \ and measures in the line ministries of the other ministries regulating short-term\
  \ renting of real estate.\nIn this context, the inter-ministerial working group\
  \ proposed to examine the rules concerning the level of consent required for roommate\
  \ accommodation in multi-apartment buildings for roommates - natural persons (up\
  \ to 150 days and not more than 15 beds) and in particular in the case where the\
  \ owner or tenant has a registered permanent residence in the apartment, but not\
  \ more than 60 days per year and not more than six guests at the same time (if accommodation\
  \ under these conditions is provided by several landlords in a single dwelling unit,\
  \ the benefits would be granted if they together provide accommodation for no more\
  \ than 60 days per year and not more than six guests at the same time) and the equitable\
  \ sharing of operating costs in the case of the letting of immovable property for\
  \ tourism purposes in multi-apartment buildings (co-housing).\nIn the course of\
  \ further work on the possible amendment of the legislation in this area, the view\
  \ prevailed at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development that the introduction\
  \ of a new, third category of landlords in the Hospitality Act would not contribute\
  \ to resolving the situation in this area, but would only worsen it to the detriment\
  \ of the existing second category (reception of guests for up to 5 months and offering\
  \ up to 15 beds). Indeed, it can be expected that the law would be circumvented\
  \ in the sense of unjustified transfers of room-keepers from the current second\
  \ category to the new third category, since it would be almost impossible to ensure\
  \ effective supervision in this respect. There is also a growing realisation that\
  \ offering rooms or flats through online portals cannot be considered as sharing\
  \ economy in our country, as it is usually a purely market-oriented activity and\
  \ therefore the initiative to treat it as short-term residential rental cannot be\
  \ accepted either.\nIn view of the above, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural\
  \ Development has decided not to propose an amendment to the Hospitality Act to\
  \ introduce a new category of landlords who would be subject to more favourable\
  \ conditions than those provided for in the current law. This also means that we\
  \ cannot support the initiative.\nAs regards other changes to the legislation relating\
  \ to the provision of accommodation, including through online portals, we at the\
  \ Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will work to simplify the conditions\
  \ for all providers of accommodation to tourists as far as possible, in order to\
  \ have an impact on reducing the reasons why part of this activity is still carried\
  \ out in the black.\nTo this end, an e-reporting system is already legally in place\
  \ which will take a lot of administrative burden off providers. From now on, data\
  \ will be reported only through the AJPES web portal and no longer separately to\
  \ the Police, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS) and municipalities.\
  \ Simplification is also planned in the direction of voluntary categorisation of\
  \ rooms for room owners.\n "
response date: 2018-01-22
response due date: null
sent date: 2017-12-11
title: tourist rooms for rent, 2
upvotes: 17
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/8836
