{"id":171272,"date":"2025-05-29T10:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T01:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=171272&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2025-05-29T10:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T01:39:10","slug":"oita-considers-introducing-lodging-tax","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/oita-considers-introducing-lodging-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Oita Considers Introducing Lodging Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oita Prefecture held its first meeting of the Tourism Promotion Revenue Review Panel to discuss the potential introduction of a lodging tax. The ten-member group, including academics and tourism stakeholders, will meet five times this fiscal year to examine implementation feasibility, tax rates, and usage of potential revenue. The review follows a similar initiative by Beppu City and aligns with national laws on non-statutory local taxes. In Fukuoka Prefecture, lodging taxes are already in place at both the prefectural and municipal levels. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/lnews\/oita\/20250528\/5070021395.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-165186\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/fnn_oita-onsen-image_2024_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Oita Considers Introducing Lodging Tax\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/fnn_oita-onsen-image_2024_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/fnn_oita-onsen-image_2024_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/fnn_oita-onsen-image_2024_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/fnn_oita-onsen-image_2024_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay informed with the latest Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu news and events in English. Sign up for our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free weekly newsletter <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">today and never miss a beat. Opt out anytime, your privacy is our priority. Get the inside scoop with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this <\/span><b>form<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oita Prefecture held its first meeting of the Tourism Promotion Revenue Review Panel to discuss&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":165191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-171272","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-oita-prefecture","news-category-travel-tourism","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/171272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}