Uruguay extends VAT rebates for tourists to April 2024 to encourage shopping in the country
13-09-23
At the working lunch of the Association of Marketing Managers, the Minister of Tourism, Tabaré Viera, highlighted the enactment of this decree by the Executive Branch, which extends the benefit of the value added tax (VAT) rebate until April 30, 2024, for resident and non-resident tourists.
The Minister of Tourism, Tabaré Viera, spoke at the ADM working lunch together with the mayors of Colonia, Carlos Moreira, Maldonado, Enrique Antía, and Rocha, Alejo Umpiérrez.
In terms of statistics on inbound tourism at the national level in the first half of 2023, the hierarch indicated that 1,976,960 visitors entered the country, a figure that exceeds that of 2019 and U$S 1,019 million in foreign currency.
Argentinians, who Viera defined as the "most loyal tourists", arrived in a number of 991,394, almost the same figure as 2019, while 261,580 came from Brazil, a market that the Ministry of Tourism has worked to increase their arrival in the country.