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Millions of tourists in UK could be asked to pay local visitor levy
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Government eyeing up more tax’s against businesses.
This time the tourism industry.
The city expects to raise up to £50m a year from a 5% surcharge on overnight stays. It will plough that money into improving public parks, funding the city’s festivals and building new social housing to help mitigate surging house prices driven by a boom in short-term lets. |
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"Not only tourists, if you're from Fife and head up to Aberdeen or down to Edinburgh you're charged "
How is it paid? By the tourist or the accommodation provider, a local hotelier told me it would be a flat tax based on occupancy (rate determined by council) so provider pays whether occupied or not. |
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"Not only tourists, if you're from Fife and head up to Aberdeen or down to Edinburgh you're charged
How is it paid? By the tourist or the accommodation provider, a local hotelier told me it would be a flat tax based on occupancy (rate determined by council) so provider pays whether occupied or not. "
Yes the accommodation provider will pay it but the tourist will end up paying through increased prices to cover for the taxes cost.Which in turn will lead to tourists going elsewhere in Europe
Very bad for us especially with our image problem due to violent crime and police not investigating theft
This is another tax on the rich that will only end up hitting the workers |
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"Not only tourists, if you're from Fife and head up to Aberdeen or down to Edinburgh you're charged
How is it paid? By the tourist or the accommodation provider, a local hotelier told me it would be a flat tax based on occupancy (rate determined by council) so provider pays whether occupied or not.
Yes the accommodation provider will pay it but the tourist will end up paying through increased prices to cover for the taxes cost.Which in turn will lead to tourists going elsewhere in Europe
Very bad for us especially with our image problem due to violent crime and police not investigating theft
This is another tax on the rich that will only end up hitting the workers "
They’ll have to be careful where they pick. I’ve paid tourist tax in numerous cities in Europe. I paid it in Palms, Lisbon and Porto this year. |
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By *ty31Man 2 weeks ago
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Sounds like a policy that could shoot itself in the foot.
Surely the quickest way to save money would be to cut back on the welfare state and to award government contracts based on competency and competitiveness rather than just throwing a load of money at their mates. |
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This was to be introduced in Bournemouth earlier this year but the council put it on hold because the hoteliers kicked up.
That was under a Tory Govt, although a coalition council led by Lib Dems. |
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"This was to be introduced in Bournemouth earlier this year but the council put it on hold because the hoteliers kicked up.
That was under a Tory Govt, although a coalition council led by Lib Dems. "
It was a local hotelier that mentioned it to me a few months back. It will add £40-100 a week to holiday let/airbnb/serviced accommodation. Here a lot of the short stay is contract workers to the dockyard and parents of students (grad stays). Another bill for guest houses and small operators, the larger hotels I’d guess can absorb the cost. |
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By *ty31Man 2 weeks ago
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"This kind of thing has been going on for years in Europe so why not here?"
I think the tourist rate in Europe is capped at a small amount. Plus (generally) Europe is cheating visit than UK (especially London) so it's not such a big deal. |
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It's reasonable for local services to get funding that both provides essential services for residents as well as reflective of visitor impacts, which could be viewed as unfair for residents to always fund. How this is achieved likely has several options but would have local involvement. With £billions cut from local authority budgets by the 14 year's if cuts, services are often in a poor state. Some places, like Manchester, already have hotel visitor charges, so this may be able to make this more standard.
Not all visitors stay in hotels but impose local costs, so it would unfairly tax hotel users disproportionately.
We need an overhaul of local council budgets, with many homes council tax reviewed and some increased. It's a pity that services were cut to such dire levels, for so long. |
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It was a local hotelier that mentioned it to me a few months back. It will add £40-100 a week to holiday let/airbnb/serviced accommodation. "
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought I read somewhere the charge being something like £1.50 extra a night. So 7 nights is an extra £10.50
All the hotelier needs to do is add an extra few quid to the final cost of the stay. |
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It was a local hotelier that mentioned it to me a few months back. It will add £40-100 a week to holiday let/airbnb/serviced accommodation.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought I read somewhere the charge being something like £1.50 extra a night. So 7 nights is an extra £10.50
All the hotelier needs to do is add an extra few quid to the final cost of the stay. "
The surcharge is apparently 5%.
£1.50 would equate to £30 a night.
A £1000 a week hotel/holiday cottage would be £50 |
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By (user no longer on site) 2 weeks ago
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You pay a tourism surcharge in other places. I paid one this year in Amsterdam it's was 12.5% of the accommodation cost. It didn't put me off going to Amsterdam. |
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By *abluesbabyMan 2 weeks ago
Gibraltar/Cheshire/London |
I'm in Gibraltar and Spain tried and eventually disbanded this just up the coast.
Result? Deserted beaches and several businesses, inc hotels, forced to close.
For clarity the levies were higher than the ones proposed in Wales though. |
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