There are new regs in place governing summer house rentals. As far as I can tell:-

1. You need a Cedula
2. You need an Energy Performance Certificate
3. You need a licence from the adjuntament
4. You need to check you get registered on Gencat with your house details, email & phone and max occupancy.
5. You need to register the names, pasports etc of everyone staying in your place on the Gencat site.
6. You need to collect the tourist tax (45c per person per night)
7. You need to pay your income taxes on all receipts.

Here are some interesting links:-
Spreadsheets of registered properties,
http://www20.gencat.cat/portal/site/empresaiocupacio/menuitem.32aac87fcae8e050a6...

Tourist Tax,
http://www20.gencat.cat/docs/empresaiocupacio/20%20-%20Turisme/Documents/Arxius/...

Background,
http://www.spain-holiday.com/rentalbuzz/holiday-rental-licences-in-catalonia

I suspect that, if the authorities chase this then the number of rented properties will collapse and the local economy with it.

another load of nonsense to completely ignore !,
the local area gets enough from the people coming here and spending their money already,
the country would have had millions more going into the economy if the authorities hadnt been so stupid a few years ago and scaring everybody off !
muppets the lot of them !

Do you think that would really work.You're fighting blinkered bureaucracy,it's the way it's always been,it's the way it is and it's the way it will be.If they could come up with an easy and fair way and actually implement it then maybe.
We estimated several years ago that each tourist pumps aprox.£700 into the local economy,that's a lot of fresh income.They should encourage more not strangle what they little they have.

all I readis very negative remarks that is why I ask has anybody ever asked if there are other possibilities.
complaining is o.k. if you have first tried to find a better solution.normally it helps to talk to people and explain otherways to do things. who will try

When it first reared its ugly head several years ago quite a few people started flapping.The amount of properties for holiday rent in the Tortosa fell from 14 to 7 practically overnight (almost equalling the amount of properties on the same website for the whole of Aragon......)It has been looked into and for the most it is a load of scaremongering and the relevant town councils did their usual Catalan shrug, granted it was several years ago so please do not take what I say as gospel....as if anyone would. Check for yourselves if ness.

Hivi
They are trying to do something,Taxing everything possible !!!!
here we go  I think they have been getting some coaching from that friend of mine, Mr O Leary.

You have to remember that most European countries now have 'tourist tax' France,Italy and Holland ranging from a few cents up to €5.00 per person so it's nothing new.