Tourist Tax?

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Just watching the news and the report from Bowness is regarding a £1 tourist tax (per person per night). Apparently this is being looked at all over the country.

So, if this happens as well as toll roads and LEZ charges there will be another price to pay, presumably with a fine if you don't pay on time?
Just what your average Brit who can barely afford a holiday due to the cost of living crisis needs at the moment!

Oh well, here's a little song just to cheer everybody up;

 
The way its proposed in Wales is that hotels and owners of holiday accommadation etc would be taxed per unit that would be expected to be passed on to the customer. LAs would administer, collect and spend the receipts for the benefit of the displaced and inconvenienced locals. So no fines.
 
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Glandwr said:
The way its proposed in Wales is that hotels and owners of holiday accommadation etc would be taxed per unit that would be expected to be passed on to the customer. LAs would administer, collect and spend the receipts for the benefit of the displaced and inconvenienced locals.
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Are the locals inconvenienced by the revenue that is brought in by tourists though, the economy in some areas would collapse without tourism.
 
It’s been proposed for those who stay in hotels in Edinburgh Rob.

My mate is just back from Florida you have it there, and if you want to go to the Everglades there’s a further $30 per person charge. It’s a con being used in many parts of the world now. Come to our country or city, spend your money helping our economy, and for the privilege of doing so we will tax you. I do accept that tourism is not wanted everywhere, and it even damages certain places, but I don’t think this is how to treat people.
 
Don't mean to be political but essentially this topic itself is intensely so.

Is it OK to interfer with the market and people's freedoms for a greater benefit or not? The ultimate political divide.

Best be careful with our language.
 
They had this in Canada last time I was there 3% was added to Hotel room and any purchases made like in restaurants and attractions especially round the Niagara Falls area but you could refuse to pay it and they had to take it off your bill. Waiting on the Tyre tax here next seems like every day they are thinking of more ways to tax us or find ways to charge us for every day things. What’s next 20p every time you flush a toilet.
 
Wully said:
They had this in Canada last time I was there 3% was added to Hotel room and any purchases made like in restaurants and attractions especially round the Niagara Falls area but you could refuse to pay it and they had to take it off your bill. Waiting on the Tyre tax here next seems like every day they are thinking of more ways to tax us or find ways to charge us for every day things. What’s next 20p every time you flush a toilet.
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You sure you’re not a politician Wullie, I mean a toilet flushing tax, only a politician would think if that one. Would that mean we would be on camera whilst on the throne, for tax reasons, or would the they assume we flushed the loo x amount of times a day. And from what I witnessed at your soirée doon the borders, you and Rob would be heavily subsidised by the rest of us. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
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Wully said:
They had this in Canada last time I was there 3% was added to Hotel room and any purchases made like in restaurants and attractions especially round the Niagara Falls area but you could refuse to pay it and they had to take it off your bill. Waiting on the Tyre tax here next seems like every day they are thinking of more ways to tax us or find ways to charge us for every day things. What’s next 20p every time you flush a toilet.
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20p on every bottle or can you buy refundable when you recycle it and use your app to get the 20p refund.
Yet again the man on the street is being charged for the governments laziness.
 
caledonia said:
20p on every bottle or can you buy refundable when you recycle it and use your app to get the 20p refund.
Yet again the man on the street is being charged for the governments laziness.
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I remember way back in time when you got Thrupence a bottle. I used to head for Glasgow city centre on a Saturday night looking for empties. On a good night I could make five Bob Cal. Do you think the youngsters of today would do likewise, no way, different world now.
 
Glandwr said:
Don't mean to be political but essentially this topic itself is intensely so.

Is it OK to interfer with the market and people's freedoms for a greater benefit or not? The ultimate political divide.

Best be careful with our language.
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It's not meant to be political as it affects the very thing the forum is all about. But I agree, it's difficult not to be.
 
myvanwy said:
It may be something to do with the date? ;) Hope so.
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No, it's not. The article appeared in yesterday's Guardian carrying Manchester's proposal to charge a £1 per night Tourist Tax, and tailing the report with details of Barcelona, Venice, Bath, Edinburgh and an impending announcement from the Welsh Government on a national approach to Tourist Tax

Steve
 
Fisherman said:
I remember way back in time when you got Thrupence a bottle. I used to head for Glasgow city centre on a Saturday night looking for empties. On a good night I could make five Bob Cal. Do you think the youngsters of today would do likewise, no way, different world now.
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I did the same looking for Corona and Jones pop bottles around the local beach resort where I lived as a kid. Made good pocket money.

Those were also the days when Walls and Lyons Maid including cards that you could collect within their Sky Ray and Zoom lolly wrappers. One had a Doctor Who card collection and the other a Thunderbirds card collection. Will admit to scouring the bins for discarded wrappers with their cards intact. Soon completed both collections. This was as well as bottles of course.

Better still my uncle owned an amusement arcade and I’d worked out the paying out system of one of the machines. It was not as random as my uncle believed. So I used the deposit money collected to multiply my earnings tenfold or more. While my uncle wasn’t looking of course!

We children of the sixties had an entirely different life to those of today but the entrepreneurial spirit we had set us up for the rest of our life!
 
Moped said:
I did the same looking for Corona and Jones pop bottles around the local beach resort where I lived as a kid. Made good pocket money.

Those were also the days when Walls and Lyons Maid including cards that you could collect within their Sky Ray and Zoom lolly wrappers. One had a Doctor Who card collection and the other a Thunderbirds card collection. Will admit to scouring the bins for discarded wrappers with their cards intact. Soon completed both collections. This was as well as bottles of course.

We children of the sixties had an entirely different life to those of today but the entrepreneurial spirit we had set us up for the rest of our life!
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Something to be proud about, never feel ashamed, and nothing to admit. We got just tuppence a day pocket money, and some of my mates got nothing. We were all poor, but because we were all poor, we simply were not aware of it.

Now look at us driving about in motorhomes, who would have thought it.
 
Fisherman said:
Something to be proud about, never feel ashamed, and nothing to admit. We got just tuppence a day pocket money, and some of my mates got nothing. We were all poor, but because we were all poor, we simply were not aware of it.

Now look at us driving about in motorhomes, who would have thought it.
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Of course, me being a posh bloke Bill, I got a thruppenny bit every day to go to school with and a tanner on a Saturday pocket money.
 
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