Bed-Tax! An unequitable and outdated funding mechanism. Time for a fact informed, consultative and un-emotive discussion

Abstract

The recent call by Jim Boult for a law change to enable Local Government Authorities (LGA’s) to charge a Local Visitor Levy – ‘a fair and equitable and sufficient levy’ (as quoted in the QLDC Submission to the IVCTL) - a Bed-Tax, is a concept that has no rational justification that on its own will solve the infrastructure problems, or has any research to back it to say that such a mechanism is necessarily appropriate, fit-for-purpose or good for all.