{"id":285037,"date":"2025-11-26T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/285037\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:20:08","slug":"england-moves-closer-to-launching-tourist-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/285037\/","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":285038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[309,78838,59,57,58,18982,50,116048,1892,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-285037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-england","tag-fees","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-hotels","tag-news","tag-short-term-rentals","tag-taxes","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}