The Lounge
The place to relax and chat about anything.
22,629 topics in this forum
-
- 1 reply
- 506 views
-
- 20 replies
- 984 views
-
- 12 replies
- 617 views
-
- 2 replies
- 560 views
-
- 271 replies
- 15.3k views
-
- 31 replies
- 1.5k views
-
- 6 replies
- 770 views
-
- 30 replies
- 1.3k views
-
- 6 replies
- 554 views
-
- 15 replies
- 785 views
-
- 7 replies
- 666 views
-
- 263 replies
- 11.2k views
-
- 0 replies
- 515 views
-
- 158 replies
- 7.4k views
-
- 10 replies
- 1k views
-
- 18 replies
- 757 views
-
- 14 replies
- 664 views
-
- 131 replies
- 7.8k views
-
- 5 replies
- 539 views
-
- 28 replies
- 1.4k views
-
- 51 replies
- 2.8k views
-
- 5 replies
- 665 views
-
- 174 replies
- 7.6k views
-
- 3 replies
- 538 views
-
- 10 replies
- 1.1k views
-
-
Latest Discussions
-
-
By Cyclemonkey · Posted
Do none of you go abroad. Tourist taxes are really common in continental Europe and do vary a lot city by city. They are collected by the hotels/rental apartments. They are usually a tiny part of your holiday costs. In Narbonne recently we paid €1.30 per person per night. The next town we went to charge 80 cents per person per night. By comparison Cologne is 5% of your accomodation. -
Hey Sue, I was wrong - I don't think it would just be for foreign tourists. So yeah I assume that, if someone lives in Lewisham and wants to say the night in southwark, they'd pay a levy. The hotels wouldn't need to vet anyone's address or passports - the levy is automatically added on top of the bill by every hotel / BnB / hostel and passed on to Southwark. So basically, you're paying an extra two quid a night, or whatever, to stay in this borough. It's a great way to drive footfall... to the other London boroughs. https://www.ukpropertyaccountants.co.uk/uk-tourist-tax-exploring-the-rise-of-visitor-levies-and-foreign-property-charges/
-
By David Peckham · Posted
Pretty much, Sue, yeah. It's the perennial, knotty problem of imposing a tax and balancing that with the cost of collecting it. The famous one was the dog licence - I think it was 37 1/2 pence when it was abolished, but the revenue didn't' come close to covering the administration costs. As much I'd love to have a Stasi patrolling the South Bank, looking for mullet haircuts, unshaven armpits, overly expressive hand movements and red Kicker shoes, I'm afraid your modern Continental is almost indistinguishable from your modern Londoner. That's Schengen for you. So you couldn't justify it from an ROI point of view, really. This scheme seems a pretty good idea, overall. It's not perfect, but it's cheap to implement and takes some tax burden off Southwark residents. 'The Man' has got wise to this. It's got bad juju now. If you're looking to rinse medium to large amounts of small denomination notes, there are far better ways. Please drop me a direct message if you'd like to discuss this matter further. Kind Regards Dave
-