Viladecans imposes a municipal surcharge on stays in tourist establishments

The City Council of Viladecans has provisionally approved the imposition of the municipal surcharge on the tax on stays in tourist establishments and the Fiscal Ordinance No. 1.21 that regulates it. The agreement was adopted by the ordinary plenary session on July 30, 2026, and is now published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona on October 2, 2026, with the official reference CVE 202610145349. The text remains open for public inspection for thirty business days.

The agreements are framed within Article 17 of Royal Legislative Decree 2/2004, which approves the Revised Text of the Law regulating local treasuries, and Article 111 of Law 7/1985, of April 2, regulating the bases of the local regime. The figure of the surcharge on the tax on stays in tourist establishments is regulated in Article 34 ter of Law 5/2017, of March 28, on fiscal, administrative, financial, and public sector measures.

The file was processed by the Municipal Treasury, through the Tax Management Unit, within the approval file for the 2026 fiscal ordinances, identified with the code 6_2026_C00003. The edict is published in the local administration section of the provincial gazette.

Public exhibition and allegations

The agreement remains open to the public so that interested parties may examine it and submit claims. The publication channels are:

• The notice board of the Viladecans City Council.
• The municipal website, www.viladecans.cat.
• A widely circulated newspaper in the province.

The deadline is thirty business days, counted from the day following the publication of the exhibition notice in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona. Claims may be filed by persons with a direct interest or those who are affected, under the terms of Article 18 of the revised text of the Law regulating local treasuries.

Final approval and entry into force

If no claim is submitted during the public information period, the provisional agreement to impose the surcharge and approve the ordinance shall be understood as definitively adopted, without the need for any new agreement from the plenary.

Once the process is closed, the Viladecans City Council will publish the final agreement and the full text of Fiscal Ordinance No. 1.21 in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona. The regulation will enter into force the day after its final publication and will govern until its modification or repeal is agreed upon.

Application conditioned on an agreement with the Generalitat

The effective application of the surcharge is not automatic. The text conditions its requirement on the fulfillment of the requirements established in Article 34 ter of Law 5/2017, of March 28, and the signing of the corresponding agreement with the Generalitat de Catalunya.

The edict was electronically signed on September 21, 2026, by the mayor-president of Viladecans, Olga Morales Segura.

For the tourist establishments of the municipality and for the people staying there, today’s publication marks the start of the countdown: they have thirty business days to file appeals and, if there are no claims, the surcharge will be definitively approved and may begin to be required once the agreement with the Generalitat de Catalunya is signed.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona, October 2, 2026, Local Administration, p. 1-1 (official reference: CVE 202610145349).