{"id":282506,"date":"2025-07-22T12:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/282506\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:41:13","slug":"major-update-issued-on-plans-for-tourism-tax-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/282506\/","title":{"rendered":"Major update issued on plans for &#8216;tourism tax&#8217; in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A similar levy already exists in Scotland and Wales is in the process of bringing one in<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753188072_805_0_featureimage.jpg\" alt=\"People enjoy the warm weather on the beach at Southend-on-Sea\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>People enjoy the warm weather on the beach at Southend-on-Sea(Image: PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">There are \u201cno plans\u201d to introduce a tourism tax in England, Downing Street said, amid claims that Angela Rayner\u2019s efforts to bring one in were rebuffed by the Treasury. The Deputy Prime Minister has been pushing for councils to be allowed to introduce a tax on tourism in their areas as part of the Government\u2019s devolution agenda, according to several media reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Rachel Reeves, however, is said to have blocked the move for fear it would reduce revenues for businesses struggling with higher national insurance contributions and a rise in the minimum wage already brought in by the Government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Prime Minister\u2019s official spokesman would not be drawn into saying whether there were plans for such a tax. \u201cWe have previously said there are no plans to introduce a tourism tax in England,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He added: \u201cPlaces can already choose to introduce a levy on overnight stays through working with their local tourism sector, using the accommodation Business Improvement District model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cTourism obviously plays an important role in the UK\u2019s economy. Inbound tourism is the UK\u2019s third-largest service export. The UK is the seventh most-visited country in the world, and we\u2019re committed to continuing to support the sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Pressed again whether a tourism tax had been shelved after an intervention from the Treasury, the spokesman said: \u201cWell, there are no plans to introduce it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_embedded271566894.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner(Image: Stefan Rousseau\/PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Chancellor Rachel Reeves earlier sidestepped a question about Ms Rayner\u2019s call for a tourist tax. Asked for her response, Ms Reeves said she had made decisions on tax in last year\u2019s \u201conce-in-a-generation budget\u201d which was intended to \u201cfix the mess\u201d left by the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/conservative-party\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Conservatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">She added: \u201cWe\u2019ll have another budget later this year, and I\u2019ll be setting out our tax policy there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A similar levy already exists in Scotland and the Welsh Government is also in the process of introducing a tourism tax. Tourists staying in countries across Europe are required to pay local taxes aimed at offsetting the impact of large numbers of visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A similar levy already exists in Scotland and Wales is in the process of bringing one inPeople enjoy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,285,183,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-282506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-politics","12":"tag-travel","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}