Migrant hotels will be exempt from Andy Burnham‘s tourist tax on hospitality after the Prime Minister was accused of raiding struggling Brits with an unlimited ‘overnight visitor levy’.
Earlier this week, the Prime Minister gave his favoured regional mayors the power to impose an unlimited ‘overnight visitor levy’ on stays in hotels, B&Bs and holiday lets in England.
And despite objections, Mr Burnham ruled that the tax would be a percentage of accommodation charges rather than a flat fee and would not be capped, with Labour-run areas likely to set it at 5 per cent.
At the time, a furious business group dubbed the
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