On Wednesday, the Vilnius city council decided against considering a “pillow tax.” 16 voted for considering the change, 9 voted against it, and 16 abstained.
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The Social Democratic Party group on Vilnius Municipality Board have put forward a proposal to collect a pillow tax – a €1 charge for hotel accommodation - which would begin to take effect from 2017.
Guests staying in hotels and private apartments in Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas will have to pay a EUR 0.5 "pillow tax" for every night spent as of January 1, 2016.
Vilnius authorities have postponed discussions on the introduction of a "pillow tax" of 50 euro cents as of next year, the spokesman for Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius told BNS on Wednesday.
