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Would you pay a campervan tourist tax?

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Hi, just wondering what the reaction to a pseudo tourist tax for campervans might be.

Highland council are investigating ways that a charge could be levied, details are not available as some of this depends on legislation but just to gauge feelings I thought I'd ask here.

Would you pay a voluntary annual fee just to identify you as a "responsible camper" in the area?
Would you support a mandatory per-night charge (similar to hotels in many locations around the world)?

Would your support be contingent on investment into facilities for campers?

Not sure how this could work, questions remain about permanent residents, enforcement, collection etc.. there are a lot of rented vans.

Thanks
 
Already pay a tourist tax in a lot of countries that is included in the campsite fees charged aboard.
 
14woody said:
Already pay a tourist tax in a lot of countries that is included in the campsite fees charged aboard.
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Highland have a particular issue with campervans outside of recognised sites. Honestly, there are some people I wouldn't allow out without responsible adult supervision. Emptying toilet cassette into burns and rivers, dumping rubbish, wild fires etc.. If a regular tourist tax is introduced via camp sites it could even increase this kind of behaviour. Personally, if introduced I'd like to see it pay for more rangers.
 
I thought ‘grands were classed as cars so you shouldn’t have to pay.
Unless they leave it to the judgement of some bloke they have given a half baked uniform to in which case, what will he decide about my unconverted 51 where I fold seats flat and camp in it?
 
Fair point but I was really only looking to see if there were strong feelings or opinions. There are probably a lot of campervans that are van conversions and still say that on the V5 so you are right, there is an element of enforcement that would be problematic.
 
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