Labour has announced a new tax!

[EvangelicalAboutButteredToast]

I know, I know, we’re all shocked.

In the King’s speech today. A new tourist tax that would be applied to overnight accommodation. It’s called the Overnight Visitor Levy Bill and could add around 5% onto hotel, B&B, guesthouse costs. They are pushing it through as we speak, I guess in time for summer.

Are we allowed to dance on Sundays?

Its great thing to do, tourists can bring many benefits, they also bring costs, like for us, the highest water charges in the UK.
Extra pressures on AE/GP services, road wear n tear, littering etc etc

Some people hate Labour, if this was a Tory policy, they'd all be arguing positively for it.

Why can't people just grow up and act in the interests of the country?

Jet fuel is set to treble in price, maybe you also think Govt should subsidise air travel?

Going on Holiday has always been a luxury item....

Exactly! This will soon go up. I wonder if I am doing repairs at home and go to a hotel need to pay it in my own city?

This is hilarious. Honest to god what a time in history.

It's pretty much standard when you travel abroad.

And it makes sense to me as many touristy areas can really struggle.

Hopefully it will enable investment in those areas which will in turn attract more tourism

Brilliant idea. And much needed, especially in London.

Is that because this thread didn’t go the way you hoped?

It's easy to say it's not much relative to a trip to Rome.
But for those if us who camp or do cheap UKcaravan holidays because that's all we can afford, it's a significant percentage increase on the trip.

I've not looked at it in detail. Does it apply to all forms of accommodation? And what about the campervans that do plague us? Yet more costs for proper sites so they'll all park in the passing places on single track roads instead.

I paid "tourist tax" last year in rome. This year in venice. I believe I paid it in Spain a few years ago...
Egypt last year I paid to enter the country (paid for the visa)
Liverpool charge it here.

Maybe think a little more carefully about the “Labour are terrible-don’t vote for them” threads you start. Heaven knows there are a few open goals available to you!

Yes and most of them aren’t new taxes, which is the point I was replying to.

The biggest impact is the freezing of thresholds, which is something the Tories did too.

Ha ha they do that now.

Will be up to councils if and how much they decide to charge for camping... but of course they should charge, you use the facilities paid for by council tax payers after all.

“We want better public services!! Heavens no, we don’t want to PAY for them!!!Perish the thought!”

From what I can see it only applies to mayoral authorities, which excludes some tourist areas.

From the tax payers alliance. AKA a think tank that represents the interests of billionaires pretending to represent the average man on the street. A lot of these 'tax rises' are are tweaks and inconsequential to most. And no, I don't give a hoot about VAT on private school fees. Private education is a luxury, so pay your bloody tax tax on it. I'm hardly going to start hopping up and down about taxes applied to vapes or freezing of thresholds.

The country is bankrupt and people need to grow up. Nothing, and I repeat NOTHING in this country is going to improve without us reducing the deficit, reducing borrowing costs and increasing government budgets. Grown up countries like the Scandis realise this. If you want excellent services you need to pay for them. Also if you vote Reform, we're only going to get poorer. Borrowing costs and interest rates will rise as we'll be seen as a basket case of a country.

Well no, it isn’t ‘literally all they have done’.

There are things like scrapping the two child cap (lifting many out of poverty) , invested in renewable energy, got boat arrivals down by a third this year, net migration down two-thirds, re-established the Erasmus scheme for our young people, free breakfast clubs, new youth centres, new apprenticeships, NHS waiting lists down and lower than for years and years … and a lot more.

But hey, you’ve got your finger in the political pulse and spotted this ruinous impact on our family budgets….

I’ve just been to Japan and they have tourist tax and I’m sure other places do to . What I hate about Labour is that they have no ideas for growth and the only way they raise money is by taxing people more and more .

Why does this bother you so much? I can’t remember the last country I visited that didn’t add ‘local tax’ to my hotel bill! It’s pretty standard I think 🤷‍♀️

@hattie43 could you explain to me the amazing things the Tory’s did for growth? I’ve got a business and I’m not seeing it and I our case bought in Brexit which was completely anti growth - and quite the opposite!!!

Because everytime I get my head straight re. finances, everything goes up again. I’m so tired of having less and less money.

It's fair enough. If you can afford holiday accommodation then 5% is bugger all.

Taxing necessities is what they shouldn't do, eg food

I seriously think we have reached propaganda central with these kinds of posts - It’s clear Farage and co are pumping out utter bull and people just believe it - most of these taxes aren’t new, or are a bit niche affecting few people- freezing allowances isn’t new, the Tory’s did it- do you know we have one if the highest tax free allowances in Europe, close to the top! I love people quoting the tax payers alliance like it’s some charity - it’s a right wing think tank basically of people who don’t want to pay any!!

I couldn’t give a shit about Farage. He’s a hateful, odious twat. The fact that you just assume that anyone who is fucking sick of having less and less money each month is a far right extremist says far more about you than it does the poster.

Well said @Crikeyalmighty