Paris, France – 18 June 2025 – Nomad Stays, a leading digital nomad accommodation platform, has officially challenged the Deemed Supplier Regime (DSR) Provisions in the VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA) directive, requesting their annulment before the Court of Justice of the EU.
The legal action, filed against the Council of the European Union, contests key provisions that fundamentally alter VAT treatment for short-term rental (STR) platforms. Nomad Stays argues that the new rules impose unjustified regulatory burdens, and fail to respect fundamental legal principles.
“These provisions are based on the incorrect assumption that STR services are in direct competition with, and operate identically to hotels. They disregard the diversity of digital nomad accommodation offering” stated Aymeric de Moncuit, partner at Mayer Brown and legal representative of Nomad Stays. “The new VAT regime threatens economic viability for independent operators, contradicting essential principles of fiscal neutrality and legal certainty.”
The company’s challenge is based on seven key legal arguments, including manifest errors of assessment, infringement of the principles of proportionality and equal treatment, and violations of fiscal autonomy and subsidiarity. Nomad Stays emphasizes that the directive introduces unnecessary administrative complexity, jeopardizing the digital economy’s innovative ecosystem.
As the case moves forward, Nomad Stays urges policymakers to re-evaluate the approach to VAT regulations for digital platforms, advocating for solutions that protect entrepreneurship and innovation while ensuring fair competition.
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Nomad Stays wishes to make it very clear that the currently named business, "Rent Remote", has no relationship with our business, "Nomad Stays".
"Rent Remote" is the latest name for a company that once tried operating as "Nomad Stay". A name that infringes upon our trademarks and intellectual property. "Rent Remote" has operated using a range of others names too included "Boundra" and "Settle Stays" and is led by Remy Broun, who claims to be a "Software Engineer at Apple" on his personal domain and LinkedIn profile.
Following an exchange of letters from our legal counsel "Nomad Stay" changed their name to "Rent Remote". However in clear violation of our trademark "Rent Remote" continues to retain email names and redirect domains including www.nomadstay.com to rentremote.com despite our instructions to cease use of the domain name, and relinquish the domain name.
"Rent Remote" continues to reference "Nomad Stay" on their website and use nomadstay.com for emails (MX records) in violation of our trademarks, copyright and other Intellectual Property.
Nomad Stays ® is the registered business and/or company name in over 5 countries with a range of trademarks around the world. Nomad Stays ® is the world's leading dedicated accommodation booking platform for digital nomads. Nomad Stays ® also conducts business in a legal and ethical manner that sees us collecting all required taxes on our transactions and business, and reporting to the authorities where required.
Nomad Stays ® is active in shutting down imposters, fraudulent operators, copiers, and other people infringing our rights with success in over 25 cases to date.
People engaging with "Nomad Stay" as operated by "Rent Remote" should be aware that they are not engaging with any representative, legal or otherwise, of "Nomad Stays".
Nomad Stays is pleased to announce a new ‘digital nomad meetup tool’ for its Stay partners around the world.
The new ‘digital nomad meetup tool’ allows its Trusted Stay Partners & Coworking partners to easily create & share their digital nomad events with thousands of digital nomads.
To create the new service Nomad Stays has partnered with Wozin App, a digital nomad event sharing app already used by thousands of digital nomads.
With over 10,000 digital nomads using the Nomad Stays platform every month the partnership allows a much bigger visibility of digital nomad events around hundreds of regions featured on the Nomad Stays platform.
I met Wozin App Founder, Daniel Nagy, while nomading in Spain last year.
One of our Trusted Stay Partners had used Wozin App to create a Meetup for us Founders to meet the digital nomads in Tarifa.
It didn’t take long talking with Daniel to realize we each shared a passion for helping the digital nomad lifestyle and the alignment between Wozin and Nomad Stays was pretty obvious.
Loneliness, boredom, and isolation are common problems for some digital nomads as they travel to new countries.
Finding like-minded people can be hard for some when they are working so much.
The new Digital Nomad Meetup Tool makes it easier for both digital nomads and Stays hosting nomad events to connect with each other.
Today’s announcement expands on the Nomad Stays – Wozin partnership developed in 2022.
