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From: Denc 🗡
Yes you stupid peons , get back to the impoverished sh1t shoveling you so richly deserve… Cornwall plots second home crackdown and tourist tax More tax powers will tackle local economy’s over-reliance on tourism, council says Cornwall Council is calling for a council tax crackdown on second homes and a new tourist levy in a fight against out-of-towners. The local authority is preparing to ask the Government for new powers to apply a 300pc council tax surcharge on second homes, introduce up to a £3 tourist tax, and close a business rate relief loophole increasingly being used by second home owners to avoid higher council tax charges. In a whitepaper published this week, Cornwall Council said with the help of the Government it could raise an “extra £2bn” in tax revenues each year. It said the money raised would be used to address the county’s “housing crisis, a super-ageing and inverted population profile, some of the lowest household incomes in Europe, weak infrastructure and an economy that remains too reliant on tourism and hospitality”. The council says that “the prevalence of second and holiday homes” is having “negative effects” on its housing market. Councillors in the popular holiday destination also plan to ask for “flexibility” to introduce rent caps, and for “a share of more buoyant tax streams” – such as VAT, stamp duty land tax, corporation tax or income tax. A final version of the whitepaper will be presented to Westminster in September, according to the council’s website.

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