MRDT
Hotel Guest Tax (MRDT) Overview
The Municipal and Regional District Tax (MRDT) is a provincial program jointly administered by the BC Ministry of Finance, BC Ministry of Tourism, Arts, & Culture, and Destination BC, the crown corporation providing tourism service for the province.
The collection of MRDT is to provide funding for local tourism marketing, programs, and projects. The tax is paid by visitors and intended to help grow Silver Star revenues, visitation, and jobs, and amplify Silver Star’s tourism marketing efforts in an increasingly competitive marketplace. The SSRA successfully applied for MRDT in 2021 for the Silver Star Resort Lands area.
The MRDT applies to the purchase of accommodation in designated accommodation areas and includes hotels, motels, resorts, bed and breakfasts, houses, cottages and cabins, and other short-term lodging. Spending on tourism marketing, programs, or projects under the MRDT contributes to the increase of local tourism revenue, visitation, and economic benefits at Silver Star.
FAQs
This is one of our most frequently asked questions. Fees are mandatory and provincially mandated. All owners in the designated Silver Star Resort Promotion Area must be a Member of the resort association and contribute assessment fees to support ongoing destination, marketing and sales initiatives. The fees are payable if a unit is made available for rental to anyone at any time of the year on either a short term or long-term basis.
This is one of our most frequently asked questions. Fees are mandatory and provincially mandated. All owners in the designated Silver Star Resort Promotion Area must be a Member of the resort association and contribute assessment fees to support ongoing destination, marketing and sales initiatives. The fees are payable if a unit is made available for rental to anyone at any time of the year on either a short term or long-term basis.
This system is enviable to many other tourism regions that struggle with nightly rentals zoning and funding for tourism marketing. Guaranteed annual funding to promote Silver Star enables us to market and sell the destination in all economic climates. As of October 2022, operating costs are supplemented by MRDT, a 3% provincial tax on short-term tourist accommodation, first established by the province over 35 years ago to help support tourism marketing and programs.
