{"id":595835,"date":"2025-11-26T21:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/595835\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T21:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:42:13","slug":"england-moves-closer-to-launching-tourist-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/595835\/","title":{"rendered":"England Moves Closer to Launching Tourist Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to England could be more expensive in the coming months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>English mayors will be granted the power to tax overnight stays in their respective towns and cities, according to a Tuesday news release from the government. The announcement follows a similar push for more tourist taxes in other parts of the United Kingdom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new tax would apply to stays at hotels, short-term rentals, bed and breakfasts, and guesthouses, according to a government statement. Certain accommodations, including homeless shelters, would be exempt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The annual budget from finance minister Rachel Reeves, released Wednesday, said the government was &#8220;consulting on the design of the levy\u201d and would consider allowing other local leaders the power to launch tourist taxes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Push for More Tourist Fees<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government notes similar fees are already in effect in major tourism hubs across the world, incl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trip to England could be more expensive in the coming months.\u00a0 English mayors will be granted the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,156761,4884,10238,1144,712,32705,1523,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-595835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-fees","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-hotels","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-short-term-rentals","17":"tag-taxes","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115618181659306606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595835","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=595835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}