Holiday home owners rarely break the rules on purpose. Almost always it is an obligation they did not know existed, or a deadline that passed while they were abroad. This is the list we keep under control for our clients through the season.

The categorisation decision

Without it you may not rent out at all. The decision must match the actual state of the property — number of rooms, number of beds and type of accommodation. If you have since rearranged the space or added beds, the decision needs to be amended.

Registering guests in eVisitor

Every guest is registered within the prescribed deadline, regardless of whether the booking came through an agency, a platform or directly. If an agency does this for you, ask for proof that the registration was actually made: the responsibility stays with you as the host.

Tourist tax and tourist board membership fee

These are two separate obligations, with different deadlines and different recipients. The most common mistake we see is that one has been paid and the other forgotten.

Income records

Platform payouts, bank transfers and cash must be tracked in one place and must reconcile with what has been declared. If income sits in three separate spreadsheets, that is very hard to explain when someone asks.

Agency and platform contracts

The contract must make clear who collects payment, who registers guests, who accounts for the tourist tax and whose books the income belongs in. Contracts that do not say this explicitly almost always turn into a cost later.

Annual obligations

After the season come the annual accounts and filings — in Croatia and, very often, in the country where you are tax resident. These two are not done separately; they have to line up.

Not sure where you stand? A review of your current position usually fits into a single conversation and shows what is missing before it becomes a problem.