VAT is now a shared tax in Spain, although with central legislation and administration
that can hamper a more intensive (differential) use of this tax by tourist regions.
As tourist-oriented regions are those most interested in raising taxes on tourism activities (see above),
such a general approach may be less interesting and even inefficient.
Albeit the Spanish basic tax legislation considers the possibility for the regional governments
to change rates or implement surtaxes on shared taxes, this was not the case with VAT
because the EU Commission interprets that VAT rate variation is not possible within the regions of a country.
2 Still, the analysis of changes of VAT rates in Spain could be illustrative for countries outside the EU,
and even for Spain and the other EU countries considering that EU laws
(and above all the aforementioned interpretations) are subject to change.