Sunshine to British ColumbiaEnglish · 2 days agoWhy BC Should Make Public Transit Freethetyee.caexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareBlameThePeacocklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoNot sure why tourists should fund this, it’s mostly locals that would benefit, but if that’s what you want just tack a couple bucks onto the hotel fees to make it easy to handle.
minus-squareSunshineOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoBecause they need to pay for their public transit use since they haven’t been paying taxes in the province.
minus-squareBlameThePeacocklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·1 day agoThey do pay taxes in the province though… Hotel taxes, sales taxes, income taxes on the wages of the people providing services to tourist, etc. Tourism is one of the easiest injections of money possible into a local economy A couple visiting for a week can easily spend $2,000+ on lodging, food, and activities.
minus-squarecorsicanguppylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day ago can easily spend $2,000 Do you always do math based on ‘could’? What’s the tax rate on “we could win the lottery”?
minus-squareBlameThePeacocklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 hours agoI mean, there is actual data on this… it’s easy enough to google. 28.2 Billion spent by 22.1 million international tourists in 2019 is $1276 per tourist for each trip. https://www.latmultilingual.com/blog/who-are-canadas-tourists-an-overview-of-the-top-tourism-markets-for-canada/
Not sure why tourists should fund this, it’s mostly locals that would benefit, but if that’s what you want just tack a couple bucks onto the hotel fees to make it easy to handle.
Because they need to pay for their public transit use since they haven’t been paying taxes in the province.
They do pay taxes in the province though…
Hotel taxes, sales taxes, income taxes on the wages of the people providing services to tourist, etc.
Tourism is one of the easiest injections of money possible into a local economy
A couple visiting for a week can easily spend $2,000+ on lodging, food, and activities.
Do you always do math based on ‘could’? What’s the tax rate on “we could win the lottery”?
I mean, there is actual data on this… it’s easy enough to google.
28.2 Billion spent by 22.1 million international tourists in 2019 is $1276 per tourist for each trip. https://www.latmultilingual.com/blog/who-are-canadas-tourists-an-overview-of-the-top-tourism-markets-for-canada/