Darwin cruise ship visitors may be slapped with a $47pp tax, according to NT News. The tax was suggested in a paper, The Demand and Economic, Environmental & Social Impacts of Australian Cruise Tourism, presented at a conference in Darwin and is seen as “one solution to funding port infrastructure...
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Darwin cruise ship visitors may be slapped with a $47pp tax, according to NT News.
The tax was suggested in a paper, The Demand and Economic, Environmental & Social Impacts of Australian Cruise Tourism, presented at a conference in Darwin and is seen as “one solution to funding port infrastructure and addressing negative environmental impacts from cruise tourism”.
The newspaper reported that the “tax would raise $1.5m a year to finance improvements at Port of Darwin” and is based on “an Alaskan style excise tax”, where a fee is imposed on particular commercial passenger vessels that have 250 or more berths.
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