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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Noah Vickers

Pressure grows on Government to allow London tourist tax

London's National Gallery. Could arts and culture in the capital benefit from a tourist tax? - (PA)

Pressure grew on Thursday for the Government to allow Sir Sadiq Khan to impose a tourist tax on overnight visitors to London, as a leading think tank argued it could help revitalise arts and culture in the capital.

In a new report, the Centre for London warns that the city’s creative industries are in peril, as total local authority spending on arts and culture per head nationally fell by 50 per cent between 2010 and 2021.

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