New Zealand Herald, 27 November 2017 – New Zealanders’ tax shouldn’t be used to install extra toilets for tourists and a levy on international visitors could work, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.
Labour is waiting for advice from officials as to how a levy could work, after campaigning on charging international visitors a $25 per trip levy, with 60 per cent of funds collected going on tourism projects, and the rest going on conservation work.
Tourism Industry Aotearoa has questioned whether excluding NZ citizens and permanent residents from the levy would be workable, given no other country in the world has a system to do so when people pay for airfares. Read more…
