Italy is planning a €5 per day tourist tax, with a possible exemption for youth hostels:
Italian towns will be allowed to tax tourists up to five euros ($6.30; £3.40) per day in the 2007 budget put forward by Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
Income from the accommodation tax, which would be payable by Italian tourists too, would have to be spent on tourism structures and services.
Cities will be able to apply the tax at certain times of the year, or to exempt places like youth hostels.
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