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10p tax on tourism
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• The Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association has petitioned Parliament against the Isle of Wight County Council Bill in so far as it seeks for the County Council power to levy a charge of 10p (or such greater sum as the Secretary of State may from time to time approve) on each person landing on the island—unless travelling on the return half of a ticket issued in the Isle. of Wight. The proposed tax would be hidden in the charge of the sea ferry or airline and for coach travellers alone would, says the Association. total £100,000 a year.
The grounds of the PV0A's petition are that the charge would be damaging to members who take tourists to the Isle of Wight • and to members operating on the island. In the case of licensed services and existing contracts, the operator would be liable to pay the charge without having any means of recovering it from his passengers: the losses in this respect could be substantial. In the case of excursions from South Coast resorts at least the charge would be of sufficient significance to deter day trippers from going to the island and would again damage members' businesses.
Commenting, Mr Denis Quin, PVOA director, said: "So far as the coaching industry is concerned any provision of this nature must create a dangerous precedent, liable to be followed in certain other parts of Britain, and it will be vigorously opposed by the Association."