Ever since Cornwall Council's Director of Environment and Economy Tom Flanagan raised the issue of a tourist tax with MPs, there has been a flurry of comments on the subject.
I've yet to read a single positive comment with most predicting that such a tax would both deter tourists from coming to Cornwall and be almost impossible to collect, but a number of papers have run the story nonetheless.
I know that the Council's press team have a statement prepared to give to anyone who asks, but it has yet to appear on the website.
On Wednesday there is a meeting of the Council's Cabinet. Whilst it is far too late for the issue to be properly debated then, I hope that the Leader will either signal that the issue will be debated by all councillors at the next full council meeting or he will kill the debate off altogether by making it clear that there is no prospect or a tourist tax in Cornwall. With the subject having been raised from within, it is no longer any good saying simply that it is not our policy.
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http://www.bitterwallet.com/should-we-tax-tourists-the-case-for-and-against-cornwalls-tourist-tax/45673
Not pretty reading...!
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