Venice tourist tax 2026: rates for hotels and short lets, exemptions and the day-tripper access fee

How much is the tourist tax in Venice for short lets?

For locazioni turistiche, homes let to tourists under art. 27-bis of Veneto regional law 11/2013, the Comune di Venezia doesn’t use a single rate. The amount depends on the property’s categoria catastale, the class the Italian land registry assigns to it (you’ll find it on the property’s visura catastale, the land-registry extract):

• The tax applies to at most 5 consecutive nights.
• High season runs from 1 February to 31 December; nights in January cost 30% less.
• The discounts for the lagoon islands (20%) and the mainland (30%) don’t apply to tourist lets: a flat in Mestre pays the same as one in the historic centre with the same cadastral group.
• A tourist let registered in a non-residential category, or not registered at the land registry at all, pays the group 1 rate; a let made of several units in different categories pays the highest group.
• A change of cadastral category counts from the first day of the following calendar quarter.

Reductions are applied one after the other and only the final amount is rounded, to the nearest 10 cents, with 5 cents rounded down: that is why half of €3.50 is €1.70. Work out what a stay costs with our tourist tax calculator.

Hotels, B&Bs and other accommodation

Hotels, B&Bs and the other classified accommodation have their own rates, by stars or by leoni (lions, the Veneto rating for non-hotel accommodation), and here the location does matter:

For the tax, the historic centre includes Giudecca and the islands of San Servolo, San Clemente, Sacca Sessola and La Certosa; the island discount is 20% (10% for 5-star hotels). The rules that apply to every operator are in our guide to the tourist tax in Italian hotels.

Examples: what does a stay cost?

By comparison, Rome has a single €6 rate for short lets and a 10-night cap: see our guide to the Rome tourist tax. Florence charges €6 for up to 7 nights, as explained in the Florence tourist tax guide.

Who is exempt, and who pays less?

Article 4 of Venice’s regolamento exempts:

• people registered as residents of the Comune di Venezia;
• children under 10;
• people having rehabilitation therapy in local health facilities, one companion per hospital in-patient, and both parents accompanying a sick person, with a certificate from the health facility;
• people with disabilities, whether the disability is evident or certified under Italian rules or those of their own country;
• coach drivers and one tour leader per 25 participants travelling with groups organised by travel agencies;
• armed forces, police and fire brigade staff staying for duty;
• volunteers serving at events organised by the Comune, the Metropolitan City or the Region, or in environmental emergencies, and guests of accommodation used by the Comune.

Guests aged 10 to 16 pay half. Since 1 April 2025, people who stay in Venice to work in local health facilities pay for at most 5 nights in the calendar year, with a signed self-declaration (rule added by council resolution 77/2024).

Tourist tax and access fee: do overnight guests pay twice?

No. The contributo di accesso (access fee) is a separate charge for people who enter the Città antica, Venice’s historic centre, on certain days. Its regolamento applies it as an alternative to the tourist tax: anyone staying in accommodation anywhere in the Comune, Mestre included, and subject to the tourist tax is exempt from the access fee from arrival day to departure day. Children under 14 and residents of the Veneto region are exempt too. For 2026, Giunta resolution 254/2025 set:

• €5 per day for visitors who paid by midnight of the fourth day before their visit, €10 for those who paid later;
• 60 days between 3 April and 26 July 2026, mostly Fridays to Sundays plus the late-April and early-June holiday weeks;
• no fee between 16:00 and 08:30, and none for the minor lagoon islands.

The 2026 season is over. On 12 November 2026 the Ministry of Economy and Finance portal, where Venice publishes its tax acts, showed no access-fee calendar for 2027 yet, so check the Comune’s site before spring. Exempt guests must still be able to show proof of their exemption, obtained through the Comune’s procedure. Tell guests before arrival: they pay the tourist tax to you, and they request the access-fee exemption themselves.

Who collects the tax in Venice: you or Airbnb?

The regolamento makes the operator of the accommodation responsible for paying the tax to the Comune; for short lets, national law (art. 4, para. 5-ter, Decree-Law 50/2017) also makes responsible whoever collects the rent or takes part in the payment, such as a platform. See our guide to Italy’s tourist tax for short-term rentals.

Airbnb’s help page for Venice says it will collect and remit tourist taxes in all municipalities that charge them. To see whether it already does for your listing, open the Taxes section of the listing editor, and check that the amount matches your cadastral group. For direct bookings and channels that don’t collect the tax, collecting it stays with you.

Quarterly reports and payments in Venice

You register on the Comune’s Portale dei Servizi – Imposta di soggiorno by the first quarterly deadline after you start, and report any change there by the following deadline. Then, within 15 days of the end of each calendar quarter, you report taxable, exempt and excluded nights, even if you had no guests, and pay the tax due. The regolamento allows 5 working days of grace for the money to reach the Comune’s accounts. You must also tell each guest about the tax and give a receipt.

By 30 June of the following year you also file the national annual tourist-tax return, online only.

What are the penalties in Venice?

The regolamento treats failing to update your data on the portal, or entering wrong data again after a reminder, as an aggravating factor.

Collecting Venice’s tourist tax with Maurice

Maurice is an AI agent that looks after guests from booking confirmation to check-out. For the tax you set your rule once: amount per guest per night, age exemption, maximum taxable nights and exceptions for channels that already collect it. Maurice calculates the amount for each booking and the guest pays by card during online check-in, where they also upload their documents; if they pay in cash, you mark it as paid. Venice’s half rate for 10–16-year-olds and the January discount are worth setting up with our team during onboarding.

In Veneto Maurice also sends guest details to Alloggiati Web and guest movements for ISTAT statistics (see Ross1000 and ISTAT reporting), and answers guests 24/7 in their language, including questions about the access fee. Pricing is €9.99 per property per month, VAT excluded, as a launch offer until 31 December 2026.