IVA / Peru tax

Hello,
When you arrive in Peru, you will get your Tarjeta Andina (it is just the little paper slip that you fill in on the plane, part of it is kept at registration and part of it with a stamp showing the maximum number of days that you can stay in the country). You have to keep it in your passport.

So your passport and the Tarjeta Andina together will show that you are a tourist. It will depend on the hotels if they will make your copy or if they want you to give them a copy or if they won't just ask anything at all.

By entering the Peru, you are on a tourist visa, nobody will give you any other visa. Usually it will be valid for 3 months, travellers that want to stay longer, can ask for 6 months, which is the maximum for a tourist visa. This tourist visa is the stamp in your passport, nothing else. And it is part of the process that will actually show that you are a tourist and that you don't have to pay the IGV.

I hope this makes everything a little clearer ??
Happy travels,
Martina

I make no reservations.
The cheapest hotels offer no internet booking and I save a lot of money by using them.
The also give a sh*t about taxes, so locals and foreigners pay the same.

Thanks NorthPeruTravel,
your explanation has cleared up things.

Klaush,
some of the hotels-hostals we could only reserve, since they are not doing any internet booking, however on their websites/booking.com pages it was written about IVA. Anyway, we kind of prefer to have a reservation than not, even if that makes us pay more.

I just returned from 2 months in Peru. I look like a tourist (I am not hispanic). Surely the hotel clerks knew I was a tourist. The hotels never included IGV in my room charge. In some cases I asked if IGV was included and they always said 'no'. Some hotels did copy my passport, apparently to present to the tax authorities. I did not stay at expensive hotels, so I do not know what happens there. So, there is no reason to ask the hotel clerk about the IGV.

I used booking.com to book in many cases. Again, no IGV was included in the charge.

So, don't worry about the IGV when you stay at ordinary quality hotels, if you are obviously a tourist.

Also, there is no longer any tourist card given to you when you enter Peru via the Lima airport. So, hotels will not ask for it. (I think you will get a tourist card if you enter Peru via land).

To be accurate, this exemption of the IGV or IVA is part of the promotion of tourism in Peru. The TAM (Tartjeta Andina de Migraciones) is not delivered any more if you enter using Lima Airport. It was used by hotels to get a copy of the immigrations stamp, besides the picture page of your passport, but now hotels just will get a copy of your picture pages, and probably they will ask when you enter to Peru, and with your passport data they will access to Immigrations website of Peru and will print your e-TAM. Those documents your passport copy and e-TAM will be stappled to your reservation and in case the Government check their accountings, hotels can justify the exemption of IGV.
That is all!

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