Tourist Tax Reminder

Dear owners of vacation houses or apartments,

we hereby remind you that you are obliged to register your stay and of the people who are staying in your apartment by yourself via eVisitor (national online information system) all year round.

Check-in can be made by means of any device that has Internet access.

• If you still do not have the access information, we invite you to personally come to our Office in Malinska, at Obala 46 and present your title deed, OIB and ID card to collect your access data for the eVisitor system.
• If you are unable to come in person, you can authorise another person to collect your access data by presenting the power of attorney certified by a notary public. When collecting the access data the authorised person must present your title deed, your OIB, notarized power of attorney, copy of the owner’s ID document and the original of his own ID document.
• If the company or firm owns the apartment, you also have to submit a copy of the Excerpt from the Commercial Court Register.

The citizens of the non-EU and non-EEA countries that must be registered with the Ministry of Interior will automatically be registered via the eVisitor system.

We would like to remind you that according to the Tourist Tax Act (Official Gazette 52/19) you are obliged to register your stay and of all persons staying at your house or apartment within 24 hours. eVisitor system will enable you to generate and print a payment slip to pay for the period when such obligation exists.

A vacation house or apartment is every building or apartment that is used occasionally or seasonally, does not fall in the category of the tourist accommodation object, and its owners do not have permanent residence in Malinska.

In the period from 15 June to 15 September the owner and members of his immediate family must pay a tourist tax reduced by 70%, i.e. HRK 3.00 per person per day.

Tourist tax can be paid in annual lump sum, which amounts to HRK 120.00 for each of the first two members and HRK 60.00 for each additional person, no later than July 15. This refers to Croatian citizens and citizens of the European Union.

From 15 June to 15 September the citizens who do not have Croatian citizenship or the citizenship of an EU Member State must pay the full amount of the tourist tax in the amount of HRK 10.00 per person per night. During the rest of the year there is no obligation to pay tourist tax.

​​​​​​​Please follow the above instructions. If the State inspectorate determines that you have not checked-in or checked-out the stay of your guests or and paid the tourist tax within a certain period, you will be subjected to a statutory fine (from 500,00 to 6000,00 HRK according to the Tourist Tax Act).

A holiday house or a holiday apartment is considered every building or apartment that is used occasionally or seasonally, but does not belong to the category of tourist accommodation, and the owner/owners do not possess permanent residence in the area of the Malinska-Dubašnica Municipality.

Pursuant to the Article 13 of the Tourist Tax Act, the owner and close family members who are citizens of the Republic of Croatia or citizens of the Contracting Parties of the Agreement on the European Economic Area (applies to EU Member States: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and three EFTA States: Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, as well as the Swiss Confederacy) for their stay in the period between June 15th and September 15th pay the tourist tax per day of their stay (10,00 kuna) reduced by 70%, or they can choose to pay a flat rate which is due not later than July 15th of the current year as follows:

Citizens who do not have Croatian citizenship or citizenship of the EU Member States in the period from June 15th till September 15th must pay the tourist tax in full amount of 10,00 kuna per night and person.

Tourist tax exemptions:

1. Children up to 12 years old
2. Persons with disability rating 70% and more plus one accompanying person.

Tourist tax reduced by 50%:

1. Persons from 12 to 18 years of age.

The provision of the Article 33 of the Law on Catering Activities states that if more than 15 persons who are not close family members stay in a holiday apartment or a holiday house in the period between June 15th and September 15th, it is considered that the owner provides hospitality services to citizens in his/her household. According to the Article 33 of the above-mentioned Law, the owner is obliged to obtain a corresponding document regarding the provision of hospitality services in the household issued by the competent office. If he/she fails to do so, he/she becomes subject to criminal liability.

We kindly remind you to follow these instructions. Otherwise, if the supervision of the State inspectorate determines that you have not reported or checked out the stay, or have not paid the tourist tax in due time, you are subject to the fines prescribed by Law.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any additional information.