Tourist Tax?

Wully said:
Scotland has went bammy wae all these petty taxes Sugar tax on soft drinks tax on alcohol tax on plastic bottles and cans. I’m hoping they don’t start taxing us for talking shite or I’m well Fkd.
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Nae tax for dumping here Wully, I had that removed from our council tax or whatever they call it now, argued the toss that I treat my own waste being on a septic tank and my rain water filters Into the ground through a herring bone pattern of wavin coil tube across the garden, they finally removed the charge.
 
One view on it in Lancs Live.

'Monstrous Lake District tourist tax was put forward by people who hate tourists’​

"We don’t get any of that money back reinvested into our sector. It’s absolutely scandalous"

www.lancs.live

'Monstrous Lake District tax was put forward by people who hate tourists’

"We don’t get any of that money back reinvested into our sector. It’s absolutely scandalous"
www.lancs.live www.lancs.live
 
We now see the homeless and (refugees?) rooting around public bins for deposit bottles in Germany. Especially on Stelplaz were the foreigners don't realise that the Germans have kept the returnable deposit bottles to this day.

Last time I was there it was a quite generous 25 cents per bottle and applied to all bottles including plastic ones. You got the money/token back from any supermarket that sold the brand. It was mechanized with machines that "chewed" the plastic one after verifying them and printed out the about of your bounty.
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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We now see the homeless and (refugees?) rooting around public bins for deposit bottles in Germany. Especially on Stelplaz were the foreigners don't realise that the Germans have kept the returnable deposit bottles to this day.

Last time I was there it was a quite generous 25 cents per bottle and applied to all bottles including plastic ones. You got the money/token back from any supermarket that sold the brand. It was mechanised with machines that "chewed" the plastic ones after verifying them and printed out the about of your bounty.
 
Quite clever those machines, I always forget which bottles come from which supermarket, turn up with a bag full of bottles and feed them in the machine and it sorts out the ones from store and rejects others. They also know which country the bottle comes from, try and put German bottles in a Dutch machine and it rejects them.
 
Glandwr said:
It's a balance, some communities are being totally destroyed by tourism as well.
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Too true. I live in an end terrace in a quiet Derbyshire village where I have lived happily since 1999. Until 2021 when the old farmhouse next door was converted to a 10 guest Airbnb. My life has been ruined,drunken screaming yobs,families where it seems you all have to shout all day and the drunker you get the louder you get, drones being flown over our gardens. Dogs barking non stop all day,it has to be heard to be believed. The hot tub tempts people outside at all hours in all weathers. When I finally lost it and told one group to wrap it up at 1.am using some good anglo saxon, it was plod who visited me after the owner complained and I was told you can't do that. I started suffering panic attacks and had to have counselling as a result. If I didn't have the van to escape in I don't know what would happen.
 
maingate said:
Threepence got you a Players and one match at the corner shop. Tuppence ha'penny got you a Woodbine and a match. :ROFLMAO:
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Wully woodbine, god that brings back memories my grandad used to smoke them. Whilst working in a house years ago I found an empty packet under the floor boards from 1885. I was amazed how small they were, and no filters to boot. Thank god I never started smoking, the rest of my family were all smokers.

My sister only last week told me the price of a packet of silk cut, £15, what a shocker.
 
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.

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!
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I was a bit of a wrong un as a young kid, we had a rag n bone man who also did scrap, I used to nick stuff out of his yard and sell it back to him, I got a right old hiding when he eventually sussed it out.
 
If you visit a tourist area you are already paying taxes via the campsite hotelier restaurant pub etc.
So no no no !
I am quite happy to pay an entrance fee to places such as the Everglades and say tiger reserves in India or The Serengeti .
Most of us happily pay up fpr stately home and the like.
3% tax in say Canadian hotels is sometimes a government service tax like a local vat.
Undecided on that but of only 3%. Not bad.
Again in Canada and Usa national parks charge..again ok by me.
London has its own entrance fee as we know !
Indian parks add charges for cameras as well and charge foreigners more than locals.
Similar here in Thailand where I pay more than Nida.
Must go to the tanning studio more often ?
That's not Fair....That's Life !!!
 
korky said:
Too true. I live in an end terrace in a quiet Derbyshire village where I have lived happily since 1999. Until 2021 when the old farmhouse next door was converted to a 10 guest Airbnb. My life has been ruined,drunken screaming yobs,families where it seems you all have to shout all day and the drunker you get the louder you get, drones being flown over our gardens. Dogs barking non stop all day,it has to be heard to be believed. The hot tub tempts people outside at all hours in all weathers. When I finally lost it and told one group to wrap it up at 1.am using some good anglo saxon, it was plod who visited me after the owner complained and I was told you can't do that. I started suffering panic attacks and had to have counselling as a result. If I didn't have the van to escape in I don't know what would happen.
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I have every sympathy for you, the last few years of my mothers life was similarly blighted, only added in was police turning up next door several times each week, but in this case no tourists where involved.
 
Carpet tacks
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They Used to be free, now more and more toilets are at £ 0.30 and are cashless. Is this a tax ?
 
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