A 5% car rental tax was approved by the city’s voters in 1998 that was primarily marketed to help pay for an events center and parking garage, and later a park.
Read More →Now that construction for the Smith Center for the Performing Arts is ‘on budget,’ the council unanimously approved a $1.5 million reallocation of a rental car tax that had last been designated to help build the center.
Read More →A county commissioner is proposing two new laws that would increase a hotel tax to 7.5 percent and would introduce a rental car tax.
Read More →Through its various incarnations, the American Car Rental Association has continuously advocated for major car rental companies, franchise owners and large and small independents. Today, the association is stronger than ever.
Read More →He writes that the rates in Florida lend new meaning to the term, ‘sticker shock.’
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Budget licensee uses like-kind exchange program to avoid a tax burden for 2012 as a result of the discontinuation of bonus depreciation.
Read More →Preliminary fiscal 2011 results suggest lodging excise tax and car rental surcharge revenues up 1.5% and total pledged revenues up roughly 6% due primarily to another one-time adjustment for prior years' sales tax revenues.
Read More →The proposed surcharge would help pay for future transit needs.
Read More →Bonds to pay for Safeco Field will be paid off in September. Businesses are to continue collecting the tax through September 30.
Read More →Members seek end to excise taxes and progress toward a trusted traveler program and FAA reauthorization.
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