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Wild campers visiting the Highlands could face tourist tax
People who camp in the remote Highlands could be asked to pay a levy if and when they use public facilities.
www.bbc.co.uk
I was under the impression that the tourism budget was funded through council tax throughout the UK. This seems like councils wanting to be payed twice for providing a service once My disgruntlement is compounded by the fact that many tourism facilities are privately owned and would not receive money from this tax.
Some of this is a result of new legislation that allowed second homes let out for more than half of the year to evade paying council tax if they registered as a business and payed income tax instead. I know this is already biting into the budgets of some Welsh councils.
So true. A photographer I follow on the tube, lost his rag when he spotted come garbage stuck into a drystone wall. Said wall was a the bottom of a reservoir that had dried out in the lakes I think, last year.Taxes can’t cure stupidity
So true. A photographer I follow on the tube, lost his rag when he spotted come garbage stuck into a drystone wall. Said wall was a the bottom of a reservoir that had dried out in the lakes I think, last year.