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Plans to expand convention center could include hotel tax increase
Boston :: MA :: USA | 17 days ago
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T he Massachusetts Convention Center Authority is expected to reveal plans this morning to expand the complex on Summer Street to include more hotel rooms and meeting space at the Seaport location. A source told the Herald that the proposal includes expansion...
Tags: hotel tax, tax increase, Thomas M. Menino, Boston, Business Finance, Thomas Menino, Hospitality Recreation
Mayor calls hotel tax vote flawed
Torrance :: CA :: USA | 18 days ago
Credibility Now they are saying county election procedures may have contributed to the measure's failure, which came on a 138-vote margin. That's because a technical glitch at the Office of the Los Angeles County Registrar- Recorder/County Clerk caused an untold...
Tags: Efrain Escobedo, council members, hotel tax, Torrance, Postal voting, Ballot, Rancho Palos Verdes California, Elections, Absentee ballot, Palos Verdes
McCollum sues Orbitz, Expedia over resort taxes
Tallahassee :: FL :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Attorney General Bill McCollum is wading into the legal battle between online travel giants like Orbitz and Expedia, and the growing ranks of disgruntled local governments claiming the companies are bilking them out of bed taxes. McCollum’s office filed...
Tags: Bill McCollum, Expedia, Orbitz, attorney general, general billing, billing mccollum, Florida, travel companies, hotel tax, hotel rooms
Council OKs hike on hotel tax
Indianapolis :: IN :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility The Indianapolis City-County Council passed a measure tonight to increase the county's hotel tax to help fund the city's struggling Capital Improvement Board. The vote was 15-14, with only one Democrat, Jackie Nytes, supporting the measure and one Republican,...
Tags: hotel tax
$563M in borrowing approved for new Miami stadium
Miami :: FL :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Miami-Dade commissioners have approved the start of borrowing money to build a new Florida Marlins stadium. Commissioners voted 8-4 on Tuesday to authorize the county manager to borrow $563 million for the construction in Little Havana. It's the last...
Tags: Miami-Dade County, tax revenues, South Florida, hotel tax
Florida Marlins stadium needs tourism rally
Miami :: FL :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Miami-Dade County's plan to finance half of a $639 million baseball stadium with hotel taxes depends on a speedy recovery from the worst tourism downturn since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to a Miami Herald analysis. Even though hotel taxes are...
Tags: hotel tax, percent decline, marlins stadium
Online travel sites ordered to pay $21 million to Anaheim
Anaheim :: CA :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility The city alleged companies including Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz and Travelocity underpaid hotel taxes. The firms say city's formulas don't make sense in the cyber age. PM PST, February 17, 2009 The travel sites, however, maintain that cities like Anaheim...
Tags: Anaheim, hotel tax, online travel, travel sites
Bed tax plan for Marlins stadium sacrifices Miami Beach symphony expansion
Miami :: FL :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility In calculating how to finance half of a $609 million baseball stadium with hotel taxes, Miami-Dade County is not reserving money for the New World Symphony's expanded home in Miami Beach, county officials said. Although only a planning decision, the omission...
Tags: Miami-Dade County, Miami Beach, Total Florida Marlins, marlins stadium, hotel tax
Tough economy forces Miami-Dade tourism agency to cut back
Miami Beach :: FL :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility With hotel taxes falling sharply, Miami-Dade's tourism bureau will cut payroll to combat its worst budget crisis since the 2001 terrorist attacks. The tax-funded Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau last week imposed a 3 percent salary cut on all...
Tags: Miami-Dade, Miami Beach, convention center, hotel tax
Why is upkeep of Millennium Park costing taxpayers?
Chicago :: IL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility City Hall Reporter A South Side alderman on Wednesday demanded to know why Mayor Daley was spending $8.1 million in hotel tax revenues to secure and maintain Millennium Park when upkeep of the park beset by construction overruns "wasnt supposed to cost...
Tags: Mayor Daley, hotel tax
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