{"id":21839,"date":"2018-12-11T17:13:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=21839"},"modified":"2018-12-11T17:13:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:13:31","slug":"cardiff-event-goers-could-face-a-new-ticket-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/cardiff-event-goers-could-face-a-new-ticket-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff event-goers could face a new &#8220;ticket tax&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cardiff Council are considering a levy on sport and music tickets to help the clean-up operation after big events.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The city hosts a number of high-profile events each year which attract sell-out crowds at venues like the Principality Stadium. The council say in June this year, they collected twenty tonnes of extra litter from Cardiff streets after four Ed Sheeran concerts.<\/p>\n<p>The Council say the plan is only in the discussion phase. Cabinet member for Clean Streets, Recycling and Environment Michael Michael, who introduced the idea of a ticket levy, says &#8220;we want people to come to Cardiff. We are one of the world&#8217;s leading events cities&#8221; and added &#8220;the fact that we are the nation&#8217;s capital and we are an events city needs to be taken into account&#8221; when considering the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>But Conservative Councillor for Llandaff, Sean Driscoll, is concerned at the prospect of a ticket tax. He said &#8220;at the moment there&#8217;s no indication of how much that levy is going to be. We&#8217;re concerned that the levy will just be passed on through ticket prices to visitors, and it will be seen as a tourism tax&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that Cardiff is in competition with other British capital cities like Edinburgh, and that the Welsh capital will be left behind if it pursues taxes like this.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Driscoll added that the levy could negatively &#8220;impact small businesses in the city which are crying out for business&#8230; we need to work hard on getting more people in the city&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report sent to the Council Cabinet states that &#8220;a\u00a0review will take place on whether a levy can be added to tickets, e.g. concerts at stadiums in Cardiff, however, no route has currently been identified to support a levy on tickets for events&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet known when the Council will take a final decision on the levy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff Council are considering a levy on sport and music tickets to help the clean-up operation after big events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,750],"tags":[26,597,698,248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21839"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21946,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21839\/revisions\/21946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}