- The International Visitor Levy (IVL) rose from $35 to $100 in October, which is expected to raise an additional $149 million a year. By law, it needs to be spent on tourism and conservation.
- Documents released to the Herald reveal ministerial wrangling behind the scenes over how IVL revenue could be used to improve the Government’s finances.
- Budget 2024 provided $307m of fiscal headroom by replacing Crown funding with money from existing and future IVL pots. Stakeholders say the IVL should increase overall funding, rather than saving the Crown money to stand still.
Doesn’t the hyper tourism industry get enough from our fucking country as it is?
Forget how environmentally irresponsible it is to get people to fly to the end of the Pacific Ocean, forget the vast stress it places upon our gridlocked infrastructure.
Forget that some fuckwit placed a fucking Mall at the entrance of the only road to the Auckland Airport.
FORGET ALL THAT.
Surely one of the few good things that has happened in NZ was the introduction of a Tourist Tax to help develop the tourism infrastructure yet here we have a Government who are attempting to add the Tourism Tax to the general taxation pot so as to make the books look better than they actually are!
WTF!
SPEND THAT MONEY ON TOURISM INFRASTRUCTURE AND GENERAL INFRASTRUCTURE!
Raising the tourist tax only to divert money for the urgently needed infrastructure just to make the finances look good is a slap in the face to Kiwis negatively impacted by hyper tourism!
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