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24 September 2026 | Compliancy | Platforms

How to keep tourist tax rates up to date across European cities

A city can change its tourist tax rate overnight, with no warning to the platforms that have to apply it. See what tracking those changes yourself actually costs, and how the LocationTax API keeps your rates current without the maintenance.

Compliancy | Platforms

England's Overnight Visitor Levy Is Now Official: What the Government Just Confirmed

Compliancy | Platforms

York and North Yorkshire propose a £1 per night visitor levy

Compliancy | Platforms

How a booking platform embeds tourist tax through one API

Compliancy | Platforms

How to keep tourist tax rates up to date across European cities

Governments | Platforms

England's Overnight Visitor Levy Is Now Official: What the Government Just Confirmed

The UK government has published its official response to the Visitor Levy consultation. Here's what's confirmed, what changed from the proposal, and what's still left to local authorities.

Compliancy | Governments | Platforms

York and North Yorkshire propose a £1 per night visitor levy

A £1 per night visitor levy is now on the table for York and North Yorkshire, though no English mayor can charge one yet. Here is what the report recommends, and what it means for booking platforms.

Compliancy | Platforms

How a booking platform embeds tourist tax through one API

Send a property address and get back the applicable tourist tax, exemptions included. See how booking platforms embed rate calculation through one API instead of building and maintaining it themselves.

Compliancy | Governments | Platforms

England's tourist tax: where things stand in September 2026

England has no national tourist tax, and the bill that would let mayors introduce one hasn't reached Parliament. Manchester and Liverpool already charge locally, and London's boroughs are already arguing over the money.

Compliancy | Governments | Platforms

Scotland's visitor levy: where every council stands in September 2026

Five Scottish councils have agreed a visitor levy and Highland is consulting on a fixed nightly amount instead of a percentage. Rates, start dates and what changes in October 2026.

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England's Overnight Visitor Levy Is Now Official: What the Government Just Confirmed

York and North Yorkshire propose a £1 per night visitor levy

How a booking platform embeds tourist tax through one API

How to keep tourist tax rates up to date across European cities

England's Overnight Visitor Levy Is Now Official: What the Government Just Confirmed

York and North Yorkshire propose a £1 per night visitor levy

How a booking platform embeds tourist tax through one API

England's tourist tax: where things stand in September 2026

Scotland's visitor levy: where every council stands in September 2026

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