A booking website for your holiday home in the Tarn
From Albi to the Sidobre, from the Gaillac vineyards to the Montagne Noire: who collects the tourist tax, where to declare it, and who can help you let directly in the Tarn.
- TourismTarn Attractivité
- Tourist taxCollected by the commune or the intercommunality depending on the territory, plus a departmental surcharge.
- Gîtes de FranceGîtes de France® Sud
- CheckedOn the official sources, on 13 October 2026
Letting in the Tarn
The Tarn changes from north to south, as its attractiveness agency puts it. In the north, Albi, whose episcopal city has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2010, the Gaillac vineyards, among the oldest in France and labelled Vignobles & Découvertes since 2009, and Cordes-sur-Ciel, a Grand Site Occitanie an hour's drive from Toulouse. In the south, the Sidobre, described as the largest granite plateau in Europe, in the heart of the Haut-Languedoc regional nature park, then the Montagne Noire and the abbey school of Sorèze.
The département's website sorts accommodation into broad families, two of which speak to holiday-home owners: "rentals and gîtes", and large-capacity rentals, next to B&Bs, unusual stays and properties with a pool.
The tourist tax in the Tarn
In the Tarn, the tourist tax has no single collector. The DGFiP's national file of local decisions lists fourteen beneficiary authorities in the département, all on the actual-amount basis: Albi collects it as a commune, while Castres and Mazamet come under their urban community. A commune absent from that file applies no tourist tax: it is the first document to look at. The departmental surcharge is entered everywhere, and the Tarn-Agout platform also mentions, since 2024, a surcharge for the Grand Projet du Sud-Ouest rail company.
In Albi, you declare every month, before the 15th, the nights of the previous month, and pay three times a year: 31 May, 30 September, 31 January. In Castres-Mazamet, returns and payments are quarterly, before 20 April, 20 July, 20 October and 20 January. In Tarn-Agout, around Lavaur and Saint-Sulpice, returns are monthly and payment is in three instalments.
A platform only pays over the tax on the nights it sold. For your direct bookings, your website works out the tax at the time of booking, and your export gives the detail stay by stay: which is what a monthly return asks for.
- Albi: tourist-tax returns
- Castres-Mazamet: tourist-tax returns
- Tarn-Agout: tourist-tax returns
- The national file of local decisions (DGFiP)
Who can help you
The former departmental tourism board is now Tarn Attractivité, the Tarn's attractiveness agency, in Albi. Its professional area supports hosts: the Chambre d'Hôtes Référence® brand, the Accueil Vélo label, the Apidae database, which feeds the tourism websites, and a contact for each territory.
The Tarn comes under Gîtes de France® Sud, which also covers the Aude, the Hérault and the Pyrénées-Orientales, with an agency for the Tarn. A labelled holiday home can have its own website as well: calendars sync through an iCal link when the relay provides one, and your contract with the relay is worth checking.
What a booking website changes here
A large-capacity house often means a family or a group of friends who come back. Your website keeps your former guests, and you can write to them in your name, with a one-click unsubscribe link: their next booking is made with you, with no commission.
Your website reads your platforms' calendars every 30 minutes, and the deposit lands in your Stripe account: you keep Airbnb or Gîtes de France to be found, and direct booking for those who already know you.
See your website before signing up · Pricing · A host's obligations
Sources
- Tarn Attractivité, types of accommodation
- Tarn Attractivité, the Gaillac vineyards
- Tarn Attractivité, the Sidobre rocks
- Occitanie Tourisme, Albi's episcopal city
- Occitanie Tourisme, Cordes-sur-Ciel
- DGFiP, tourist-tax rates
- Gîtes de France® Sud, legal notice
Information read on 13 October 2026 on the official pages cited. Decisions, rates and addresses change: check with your commune or intercommunality before declaring. Spotted a mistake? Write to us and we will correct it.