Are Edinburgh Councillors Risking The Wrath Of Wee Jimmy?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-44169523
This won't go down well in her beloved EUSSR!

[Jackdaw33]

What I particularly like is the statement that Edinburgh is not alone in this, the idea has been raised elsewhere in places like Hull! People who visit Hull should be paid for doing so.

[douglas9401]

Edinburgh council: never knowingly doing the right thing.

A billion pound light rail line that goes from (near) the airport to nowhere and a 20mph speed limit imposed on their pothole riddled cultural magnet are just two of their big ideas.

Individually and as a group they are without talent.

[anneasquith]

Yet another wasted thread as ttt appears incapable of using someone's name .

[Huderon]

Perhaps TTT should read the news item properly. Visitor taxes have been payable in many European countries for a very long time, so this idea is not going to upset anyone on the other side of the channel.

[Gromit]

// This won't go down well in her beloved EUSSR! //

Did you even read your own link ?

// But it has already taken hold in much of the European Union. About two-thirds of member states currently impose occupancy taxes on visitors

[gulliver1]

Get your own house in order first.

[Old_Geezer]

Once someone in authority thinks of a way to rip folk off it tends to spread as other authorities pick it up. Charging non-locals is a favourite. Think of London's so called "congestion charge". Where there is a lack of morality and no decent rules as to what is and is not acceptable then Dick Turpin characters run the show.

[ummmm]

Jordy, you go away a lot, do you not have to pay a visitors tax? It cost us 40 Euro for our current stay in Greece.

[youngmafbog]

It would appear from the article that areas of tourism can be badly affected by the tax as opposed to areas where hotels are business orientated.

Whilst I am sure there are some business travel I would have thought a larger number would be tourists so make this tax too much and people will either stay shorter in Edinburgh or go elsewhere.

Paying a tax in Hull is just plain daft, they have clearly let the "cultural city" thing go to their heads!

[Islay]

We had 14 euro added to our bill pp recently for our week in Belgium

[Gromit]

Jordyboy9

Raki is Turkish.
You mean Ouso which is Greek.

[douglas9401]

https://www.sfakia-crete.com/sfakia-crete/raki.html

[Canary42]

The EUSSR ? On returning to Answerbank after over a year's absence I can't believe you're still using that tired old expression.

[gingejbee]

^^^EUSSR, daft names, silly spelling, PMSL etc, etc....3T's posts haven't moved on at all and don't make sense to many of us.

[jno]

ah, we've voyaged ever further into the past, canary. We'll soon be debating charging up the wrong valley in the Crimea, and how Corbyn is to blame for it.