{"id":750,"date":"2016-01-11T07:48:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T06:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:35:42","slug":"hotel-tax-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/accommodation\/hotel-tax-vienna\/","title":{"rendered":"Will I pay a hotel or local tax in Vienna?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/key.jpg\" alt=\"A key\" class=\"wp-image-16176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/key.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/key-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Yes, you will pay a hotel or local tax, but you should not worry too much about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Usually works out to something just over 2.5% of the basic rate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The tax is typically already included in prices<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230;so rarely something you need to think about<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tax rises slightly in mid-2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230;and involves a simpler calculation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230;so may be listed separately<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Take in a light <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/en\/concerts-opera-vienna-tickets-l206741\/?partner=visitingvienna&amp;tq_campaign=LG_Hotels\" rel=\"sponsored\">classical concert<\/a>* while here<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/where-to-stay\/\">Accommodation in Vienna<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/visitor-questions\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1670\">Common visitor questions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Ortstaxe tourist tax<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/graben2024.jpg\" alt=\"View down the Graben\" class=\"wp-image-71728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/graben2024.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/graben2024-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(When booking a hotel or apartment for a Vienna trip, you should find the local tax included in prices or made clear at booking)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Ortstaxe<\/em> is a local tax used to help finance the Vienna tourist board: those ads, videos and informative web pages don&#8217;t write themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city of Vienna requires hotels, B&amp;Bs, and anyone offering any kind of temporary accommodation to charge you this Ortstaxe. Even if it&#8217;s just a campsite or private apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only a few exceptions apply. For example, if the person renting the room, flat etc. is studying at a Viennese university. Or if their stay is continuous and lasts over 3 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How much is the tax?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ortstaxe rate at the time of writing is 3.2% of the accommodation cost (after taking off sales tax, the cost of breakfast and then 11% of the remaining amount).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To give you an idea of how much that works out to&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Say a hotel charges you \u20ac100 per room per night. That includes sales taxes but not breakfast. They&#8217;d hand over \u20ac2.52 of that \u20ac100 as the Ortstaxe. (The exact number changes with the prevailing level of sales tax.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The relatively small amount is one reason not to worry too much about the tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another is that local law requires that the Ortstaxe cost and status is made clear in displayed prices, so you should always know where you stand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In general, quoted prices you see on accommodation websites, for example, already include this tax for Vienna. So you&#8217;re highly unlikely to get any kind of surprise later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In German, the designation &#8220;inkl. Ortstaxe&#8221; after a price indicates the tax is included in the price. In English, &#8220;incl. local tax&#8221; is the common translation used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tax rises to 5% (after taking off sales tax and the cost of breakfast) from July 1st, 2026 . This simpler calculation may also enable hotels to list their prices without tax, making it easier to compare prices with the many other locations worldwide that already take this approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another tax rise (to 8% after taking off sales tax and the cost of breakfast) is expected from July 1st, 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And outside Vienna?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing to note, though: this tax is regional, not national; different rules may apply outside of Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last time I checked, for example, the province of Tirol charged a fixed sum per person and night that varies according to which region and season you&#8217;re in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the record, Austria has a fairly devolved political system. So the nine provinces that make up the country have quite a lot of decision-making autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vienna, for example, is the capital of Austria, a city, and a province. So we get to use copy and paste when filling out our address online. And the city&#8217;s mayor is also head of the provincial government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that you know about the local hotel tax, perhaps you&#8217;d like some tips on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/where-to-stay\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1647\">where to actually stay<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you will pay a hotel or local tax, but you should not worry too much about. The Ortstaxe tourist tax (When booking a hotel or apartment for a Vienna trip, you should find the local tax included in prices or made clear at booking) The Ortstaxe is a local tax used to help finance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-accommodation","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87832,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/87832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}