Tax charged to tourists on hiking trails generates more than 5 thousand euros per day last year

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

Last year, the Institute of Forests and Nature Conservation (IFCN) charged 351 thousand euros for access to classified hiking trails to non-resident citizens over the age of 12, which is equivalent to a daily average of 5,087 euros. This year, the amount collected by the Regional Government will be higher because there are more paid trails. Payments by card are already accepted.

This figure can now be easily doubled or tripled,  and that is only for the hiking trails, the accommodation tourist tax is bringing millions as well per year.

 

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20 Responses

  1. Because of the amount of new revenue created from the tourist taxes why are Madeirans on low salaries having to pay income tax?

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    1. Minimum wages are not subject to income taxes. Other salaries are subject to progressive tax. Lower incomes pay less taxes than higher wages. Purely demagogic to ask for the revenue to be distributed by low incomes only so this means you are creating incentives to people do less qualified works when it should be the other way round.

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    1. “Last year” should not be read as a full year because the hike taxes were only introduced in late 2024.

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      1. Thanks for that. It was so evident the figures were wrong. My mind boggles at the quality of the so called journalists and editors of the Madeiran newspapers.

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        1. Maybe read it properly, it’s a daily average, the tax hasn’t been running for a full year, and this was only on a few of the walks, now they are all charged.

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          1. How can you possibly print a figure is a daily average when you haven’t a years total and you can’t know what it will be until all walks will charge. Pure guess work. According to their figures of 5,087 Euros a day when multiplied by 365 days a year, will equal 1,856,755 Euros per year income. Divide that figure by the admission charge 3 Euros and you are forecasting 616,918 walkers a year or 1690 a day, every day. What ever the weather, the time of year, whether walks are open or the state of the tourist market.

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      1. I did, no where could I find any thing to tell me that it was not a full years figures or that all the trails were not operative. It was all pure speculation, no where does it say it was purely a forecast, a ropy one at that. Maybe talk to the so called journalists who don’t understand that a newspaper is supposed to print facts, not conjecture.

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        1. George, what is translated above is not really a news article. Its just basically a sentence/summary about the newspapers daily headlines and the actual news article in the newspaper has all the figures.

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          1. Antonio. thank you for that. I made the point of looking at two of the Madeiran newspapers. Below is the Madeira Island News offering.
            the Institute of Forests and Nature Conservation (IFCN) charged 351
            thousand euros for access to classified walking routes for non-resident
            citizens, over 12 years old, which is equivalent to a daily average of 5,087
            euros. This year the amount collected by the Regional Government will be higher because there are
            more paid trails. Card payments are already accepted. This theme makes
            the headline of the printed edition of DIÁRIO this Monday.
            The other newspaper, which I am now unable to find, was almost exactly the same.

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            1. I stand by my question, how can you forecast a years average when you only have 4/5 months figures, allowing for the large number of circumstances that can affect that total each month. Back of a fag packet economics.

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  3. After contact them about the unfair system for hikers that go their to only hike since charging that fee to to hikers that hike for 6 days or more days becomes very expensive . Their replay is that they are thinking to do like a program that you can buy a few hikes this way it is less expensive than buy and single ticket every day I will be waiting and see .

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    1. Hiking for six days could not be more than 30 euros. Nothing compared to the expenses for the flights or hotel stays.

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      1. If it is 3 people and going for two weeks usually it is more than 6 days last I did stay a full month and in that time wasn’t yet full paid going now for two weeks will be expensive

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  4. Fine, that means there will be enough money to repair the stairs and reiling at the end of the Sao Lourenco hike.

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    1. My 30 experience of madeira and its culture, a lot of the money doesn’t go to maintaining the walks and rails, i wonder where the money goes to,possibly into the wrong pockets, this is not an open source

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