Resort gathering - Gorodok district

Gorodoksky’s solution
District Council of Deputies
12/29/2015 №86
(as amended by decisions of the Gorodok District Council dated November 15, 2016 N 126, dated March 26, 2019 N 63, dated December 29, 2022 N 274)

INSTRUCTIONS about the resort fee

1. Payers of the resort fee are individuals, with the exception of:

   – persons sent for health improvement and health-resort treatment free of charge at the expense of state social insurance and the republican budget in accordance with legislative acts;
   – persons sent for health improvement and health-resort treatment as part of insurance payments under compulsory insurance against industrial accidents and occupational diseases (including accompanying persons);
   – children sent to health (sports and recreation) camps on vouchers, the cost of which is reduced at the expense of state social insurance funds or the republican budget.

2. The object of taxation of the resort tax is the presence (stay of at least 24 hours) of an individual in health and resort organizations, as well as health resorts, health centers (complexes), educational and health centers, health camps, sports and health camps, houses (recreation centers), boarding houses (hereinafter referred to as health organizations) located on the territory of the Gorodok district.

   The presence of an individual in a health-resort or health-improving organization is not considered subject to resort tax due to:
   – participation in seminars, conferences and other similar events, for which the territory of a sanatorium-resort or health-improving organization is used on the basis of agreements concluded by organizations that organize such events;
   – accommodation while on a business trip;
   – performance by individuals living in health-resort or health-improving organizations of official duties – in terms of the cost of accommodation and food services.

3. The tax base of the resort fee is determined as the cost of a voucher to a sanatorium-resort or health-improving organization, and if the voucher is not issued – as the cost of paid services provided to individuals when visiting a sanatorium-resort or health-improving organization with accommodation.

   When determining the tax base of the resort fee, the cost of paid services provided to individuals when visiting a sanatorium or health organization without accommodation is not taken into account.

   In cases where turnover from the sale of health-resort and (or) health-improving services is subject to value added tax, the tax base of the resort fee is determined based on the cost of these services, including value added tax.

   In case of partial payment of the cost of the voucher at the expense of state social insurance and the republican budget (with the exception of vouchers to health or sports camps), funds from compulsory insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases, the tax base is the cost of the voucher paid by individuals at their own expense funds.

4. The resort tax rate is established for all types health resort organizations in the amount of 5% percent.

5. The tax period for resort fees is a calendar quarter.

6. The amount of the resort fee is calculated as the product of the tax base and the resort fee rate.

7. Payment of the resort fee is made by payers by depositing the fee amounts to health-resort or health organizations, which accept the amounts of the resort fee and transfer them to the district budget no later than the 22nd day of the month following the expired tax period.

   Health-resort and health-improving organizations, no later than the 25th day of the month following the expired tax period, submit to the tax authority at the place of registration information on the transfer of the resort fee in any form.

   Payment by the payer of the amounts of the resort fee to the health-resort or health organization is carried out no later than the last day of an individual’s stay in such an organization based on the resort fee rate in effect on the date of payment of this fee. Resort fees are not collected until an individual arrives at a sanatorium-resort or health-improving organization.

   In cases of incomplete use of health-resort and health-improving services provided according to the purchased voucher, or an individual’s early departure from a health-resort or health-improving organization, a refund of the previously paid amount (part of it) of the resort fee is not made.

8. The following are exempt from paying the resort fee:

   • minor children;
   • disabled people of groups I, II and III;
   • disabled people and participants of the Great Patriotic War;
   • citizens of the Republic of Belarus who have reached the generally established retirement age.

9. The rights and obligations of resort fee payers, responsibility for the correctness of calculation, completeness and timeliness of payment, violation of the established deadline for providing information, the procedure for its collection, as well as the rights of tax authorities to control the correctness of calculation and timely payment of the resort fee are established in in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Belarus.

10. The resort fee is used to finance expenses provided for in the budget of the Gorodok district.

This instruction is valid in: