Your municipality's bylaw has special cases: children free up to X, business travellers exempt, seasonal rates.
zimrly models the local rules and calculates per guest and night — exemptions included, instead of rough estimates.
City-tax software for accommodation providers
Every municipality calculates differently: per person, per night, by season, with exemptions for children and business travellers. Doing this by hand means errors or wasted hours. zimrly knows the rules of 370+ places in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, calculates the tax per booking automatically and turns the data into your municipal report.
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370+
places with preloaded rates
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full DACH coverage
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to the municipal report export
Why manual city-tax handling goes wrong
The tax must appear correctly on the invoice — as its own line, often with a different VAT treatment.
Combined with invoice automation, the city tax lands automatically as a clean line on every guest invoice.
The municipal report means quarterly stress: gathering occupancy numbers, filling in forms.
zimrly aggregates the numbers from your PMS bookings and generates the report export at the press of a button.
In an audit you must prove how you calculated.
Every calculation is documented per booking — basis, rate, exemptions.
How to automate city tax
- 1
Pick your place and bylaw
Choose your place from the database — rates and rules are preloaded. If yours is missing, we add it.
- 2
Connect your PMS
zimrly reads guests, nights and stay periods from your existing PMS — the calculation basis builds itself.
- 3
Report instead of calculating
Generate the export at the due date and submit it to the municipality. Optionally the tax flows onto invoices automatically.
Manual city tax vs. automated with zimrly
By hand
With zimrly
Bylaw
Working through the municipality's PDF
Rules per place preloaded, incl. exemptions
Calculation
Per booking or rough estimates
Automatic per guest and night from the PMS
Invoice
Adding the tax line manually
Automatically as its own line
Reporting
Quarterly form-filling stress
Export at the press of a button
Audit
Hunting for records
Every calculation documented per booking
Frequently asked questions
Does zimrly know my municipality's rates?
The database covers 370+ places in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. You can look up your place instantly in the free city-tax calculator. If it's missing, we add it.
What about exempt guests (children, business travellers)?
Exemptions and reductions are part of the stored rules. Business travellers can be flagged per booking and are exempted or reduced according to the bylaw.
Does this replace the official report via my municipality's portal?
zimrly produces the prepared numbers as an export (e.g. CSV) that you submit or transfer to the portal. Direct interfaces to registration systems like AVS or feratel are in preparation.
Does this also cover bed tax / city tax in cities?
Yes — whether visitor's tax, tourism levy or bed tax: what matters is the local bylaw, and that is exactly what's modelled.
Guides on this topic
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City tax is an obligation, not a value-add — so it should cost as little time as possible. Check what your place charges with the free calculator and let software do the rest.
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City-tax calculator — look up rates for 370+ places for free