LA County Jail, you can pay for an upgrade! C.A.
Tourist tax is something I’m familiar with, as Greece and Spain have been levying it for years, no doubt other countries as well, but these are ones I most visited in my younger years.
I’ve noticed, with some disquiet, that this practice seems to have infected the UK.
The most recent place to talk of introducing a tourist tax is Wales.
Now, I ask you, would YOU pay to stay?
There’s lovely!
Nominated by Jeezum Priest.
I just stay at home and one pay for the air I breathe.
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Only fucked off.
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Is it a tax on Wales the country or Whales in the pubs and bars? If the latter it may come with a free hand shandy per stay?
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Any of the esteemed cunters that haunt here are welcome to camp in my garden in mid wales for nowt 😁
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You can’t blame them.
Who’s going to pay for the North Wales Gay Native American Vegan Protest Group that meets once every menstrual cycle at Conwy village hall if its not us?
Fairs fair.
Good morning.
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Fuck all wrong with Wales. This counts as Welshism and therefore hate speech. Expect a call from Jones the filth.
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Just second rate chiselers. Punters will still cough up ‘cos they have already travelled miles to “see the sights”. What they won’t do is support the local economy by purchasing stuff in the local shops.
“Buy a guide book of the cathedral Sir?”
“No, you’ve already skinned ne for a fiver to get in.”
“Cup of tea in a local shop Sir?”
“No I’ve got a flask.”
Councils may talk of a “Tourist numbers problem.” but what they see is a walking cash cow to milk.
Mornin’
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The “sights”?
Sheep, fields, rain and six-fingered women?
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Who fingered them? Was it fucking renowned n*nice Andrew? Dirty cunt, isn’t it!
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Nothing wrong with the bed tax for visitors. On holiday we would certainly not miss a couple of quid a day. Of course, if paying an extra couple of quid a night is a deal breaker, you should not be there! Ten places where an extra couple of quid a night would definitely not be tolerable include:
Saffron Walden
King’s Lynn
Birmingham
Liverpool
Manchester
London
Bridgend
Hemsby
Rhyl
Basildon
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Stockport
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Hey!!😮
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Brighton, aka Fuckwit-on-sea
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Tax works the opposite in England.
We pay for the foreign scum to stay. 😠
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Very good comment
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No problem….as long as they pay me triple when I left 🫰…… thanks dai 🐑
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Where I live, they pay me for the privilege. Even illegal immigrants won’t stay after threatening to sue.
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There is only one thing I enjoy more than going to Wales, and that is coming away from Wales.
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I am already paying, we have a 2nd home in Wales and they doubled the already extortionate council tax 3 or 4 years ago. We bought it because my wife’s parents were elderly and we thought it would be a good idea to have a base down there. They have both passed on now but it was a Godsend at the time.
I have already mentioned on this esteemed website that virtually all of the Welsh people are fine, easy company and chatty, at least in South Wales It is just the Seined and local councils which have an anti English complex.
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Morning Wanksock, everyone.
Hope you don’t mind me asking Wanksock, but how does the council know it’s a second home not your main residence?
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Big brother is watching you.
Bin collections, electricity use, moron neighbours, place of employment, supermarkets used, registered doctors/dentist, Ulez/toll road payments, council tax payments, ANPR, the list is endless.
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I am not sure Afrur, I think it is because we are not on the electoral register in South Wales. We also haven’t registered with the doctor down there, mind you having sat in Morriston hospital A&E with a suspected stroke patient for 9 hours before he was seen, I think the Wales NHS has a lot to answer for. We were also told a minimum, of 4 hour wait for an ambulance although 12 ambulances were lined up outside A&E. I guess the crews had been given permission to work from home. I am told Neath Hospital is a lot better.
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Reply To Temujin
Swansea Council aren’t that fucking bright!
I don’t think it is the neighbours. The house one side is unoccupied and the other side is our local dealer. He actually suits us as he is discreet and doesn’t play loud music so we are not complaining but he is a miserable sod.
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I hate everybody and everything so the chances of me paying to stay for a few days with different cunts is 0.0%
Welsh cunts are even worse if anything with their stupid language and stupid fucking road signs.
Fuck them all to eternal torment and may they toast in the fires of Hell.
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@wamksock, I think generally that is the case in most places, It’s just the folk supposed to be running where ever it is that cause the problems.
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I am sure that is right. Under our present government you can see the public services getting ever more authoritarian, more expensive and less efficient.
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https://collectionimages.npg.org.uk/large/mw62737/The-friend-of-the-people-and-his-petty-new-tax-gatherer-paying-John-Bull-a-visit.jpg
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The authorities need to be very careful when they introduce restrictions, taxes or other disincentives in an area particularly where consumer spending is discretionary as in tourism. When these taxes in practice turn out to be per head per day the cost to a family can easily amount to a sum which will cause said family to holiday elsewhere in the future. It’s not apparent until the following year when numbers are down and having made the change your problem is getting people back again. The same effect of such short term thinking can be seen in the town centres across the country which are now dead. Local authorities jack up parking charges as a quick and easy way to raise cash. Customers disappear and the cash cow dies along with the shops. We only visit the local town centre now when it’s unavoidable. We both go in the car, one of us is dropped off to do the errand and the driver leaves immediately to return later to collect the other half.
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I’m a bit cynical Arfur. It seems to me that the argument goes a bit like this;
‘We welcome visitors, the local economy depends upon it’
(a few minutes lay-turrr)
‘We’re concerned about the impact of the “tourist footprint”. Let’s introduce a tourist tax to protect the environment’.
To me, it’s as though they want your cash, they just don’t want you.
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Bit like women then.
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Your last sentence sums it up Ron.
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Bit like the Government then.
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https://youtu.be/4O79Glps-DY?si=Ao78BQTTK12lqaZ9
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The money should be invested in their rugby system.
State of the great game in Wales is saddening.
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An exit tax would make more sense..
Come to londonstan and pay 20 quid to get out safely..
Refuse and get run over by a unlicensed mini cab driver or knifed by a aspiring architect..
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Harkitek, innit?
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Sorry, OT again, but this is pissing me off. Ofgem asked people their opinion of the standing charges on their energy bills. Most people were against such and it is now proposed that the energy companies should offer the option of tarrifs without a standing charge and presumably to pay a bit more per unit. Cue the hand wringing about how this coud be unfair on some people and Ofgem are instituting another exercise which will take a year(!) to decide how to organise it.
Here’s my suggestion;
Energy suppliers set up their computers to calculate each customer’s bill both with and without a standing charge. The customer is sent a bill for the lower figure.
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The standing charge is totally unnecessary. The infrastructure for supply has been bought and paid for 10 times over.
Profits from usage should pay for maintenance and expansion of the network, not paying fucking corporate bullshit bonuses and shareholders.
Nationalise it. Fire and rehire essential workers on a no strike contract. Fire ALL middle and senior management and ban them from public employment for life, and make them pay back their disgusting bonuses.
Re-open the mines that are still viable. Dig new ones where mines are too decrepit to save. Build a shit load of coal fired power stations, plus nuclear. Ban exports. Scrap windmills and solar shite. Re-open the North sea oil and gas fields.
It’s really not difficult to fix this, within 12 months, and create tens of thousands of jobs overnight.
But they won’t.
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Maybe the charges could be calibrated based on what views you intend to take. Pay per view based on which way you are facing. What could be simpler?
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Love Wales I do.
Give me choice
Las Vegas, Bali, greek island or North Wales?
See you in Llandudno.
I like everything about it ,
Even people being racist to me,
Dunno why people get upset by racism?
Waaaa he was racist to me!!!😩
Soft cunts.
I enjoy it.
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Ps
If someone is racist to you,
Revel in it!
Your a figure of Hate!
Goody goody.
Play up to it.
I’m hoping the Welsh bury my body in a public carpark like my idol Richard lll.
“Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end. An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.”
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We pay tax to travel, tax on meals, tax on drinks, tax to park and now a tax to go to fucking BED.
The people’s Republic of Cymru can GET FUCKED., plus they can shove their 20mph at Mach-1 right up their arses too.
The whole socialist shithole seems to be predicated on how much they can fleece us.
For me, the response is simple . NOT ONE PENNY. I consider it my Civic duty to pay as little tax and avoid as many as possible. Fuck ’em.
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The Cunts will be taxing us for farting, with the way it’s going…. It’s like the fucking mafia or rather, the Taffia.
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Well, I understand the comparison, but I think the Mafia are more trustworthy than the Gov.
Seriously.
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At least the mafia have a code of conduct.
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Wales is a rain swept land full of Pagan sheep fuckers and miserable farmers.
The only English there are from Liverpool and therefore not English. I demand 97 likes for the latter sentence or I will play the victim evermore.
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Victim? Is you blek?
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