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Codliveroil
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Post by Codliveroil »

There is a petition about involving property owners in decisions that involve property owners. I asked for a translation of the gist of it.

Dear Nigel

Thank you so much for your help and concern. This is a very important issue for all small owners. Guest Houses or Guest Rooms are a key issue for local development.
The problem today is also that big companies want to have control of those small family projects, (and also government) so it is very important that all small projects organizes themselves locally, so that they can really defend their interests.

Than you for all your efforts and help to keep residents informed.

http://peticaopublica.com/pview.aspx?pi=PT87529

Kind regards

Jorge


http://peticaopublica.com/pview.aspx?pi=PT87529



We hereby request that, should these bills be discussed and put to a vote in the Assembly of the Republic, the information given here should be taken into consideration by Members, with particular attention to the following arguments:

1. The destruction of many thousands of sustainable projects, erected and maintained at personal sacrifice, would be an economic catastrophe for tens of thousands of families, both urban and rural, impacting hundreds of thousands of workers in all activities, direct or indirectly related to local accommodation, as evidenced at the beginning of this petition;

2. It is necessary to change the current legal framework for local accommodation, according to the requirements of each of the many modalities, in order to help each one to develop its activity with lasting security and harmony;

3. Separate the various different modalities that are confused in the Local Accommodation according to their own specificities, but never harming one of them to the detriment of another, since all of them are important for local and national development, and consequent job creation;

4. Give special attention to the rural world and regions of low population density, creating tax incentives for all those who develop local housing activities;


5. Consider IRS leisure and tourism activities on small self-subsistence agricultural or forestry farms as agricultural activities, as in other European countries such as France;


6. Create a national AL entrepreneurship assistance program by encouraging this activity and creating special micro-credit lines that promote the rehabilitation of housing for guest rooms or LA units.


7. Consider Local Accommodation as strategic in the local development of both urban and rural areas.

8. Encourage private citizens to manage small local accommodation (up to a specified number of rooms / beds), taking into account that they have not only invested their savings in the rehabilitation of their homes, but practice without paid, cleaned, repaired and hosted by tourists, an activity that is obligatory because the payment of these services to third parties, due to the small size of the accommodation, would not make this activity as a supplementary subsistence and family allowance inexpensive.

9. We call for legislation to protect free enterprise and combat cartelization or monopolies, giving everyone the right to create their private or small business, whether small, medium or large.

10. Finally, we urge that this theme of local accommodation should not be the subject of a political-partisan struggle or of populism in our Parliament, but rather of consensus, and should lead to a wide public debate with the opening of a competition for ideas among the general population, local trade and other businesses directly or indirectly involved in this activity in order to create a solid basis for new legislation aimed at further boosting the whole of this crucial sector for the local economy and development.


Sign this petition:

http://peticaopublica.com/pview.aspx?pi=PT87529
RichardHenshall
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Post by RichardHenshall »

There is another petition being raised at http://peticaopublica.com/pview.aspx?pi=nao-matem-o-al which comes from the Facebook group Alojamento Local - Esclarecimentos.

Not the easiest source for guidance about everything that is AL-related for a non-Portuguese speaker/reader/writer but it's all there if you can find it!
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