The tax authorities have already announced that they will launch a major tax inspection campaign to check whether owners of apartments rented online pay taxes and meet other regulations.

In Napi Gazdaság, Zoltán Dénes calls for tighter inspection and control of private apartment rentals. Tourism boosts rental demand , which drives up real estate prices as well as rental fees in major tourist locations, making affordable housing unavailable for most locals, Dénes maintains.

He adds that the online apartment renting market can hardly be monitored by the tax authorities, and thus many owners can dodge taxes.

Dénes remaks that the municipality of New York has banned short term leases, while Berlin has capped rental fees in order to stop the prices increase. He recommends that the Hungarian authorities should severely check if short-term rentals abide by all regulations before prices become even higher and more drastic intervention becomes inevitable.

Source: BudaPost

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