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- Cities Sue Online Travel Companies for Hotel Taxes
- Cities Sue Online Travel Companies for Hotel TaxesRE: Cities Sue Online Travel Companies for Hotel Taxesw
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Expedia Owes Hotel Taxes to City; Will It Set a Precedent?
- Expedia Owes Hotel Taxes to City; Will It Set a Precedent?RE: Expedia Owes Hotel Taxes to City; Will It Set a Precedent?If they are not a hotel and therefore, not required to collect the tax, then why are they collecting the tax.......?RE: Expedia Owes Hotel Taxes to City; Will It...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
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- Expedia Owes Hotel Taxes to City; Will It Set a Precedent?
- A judge ruled that Expedia must now pay the full hotel taxes for hotel rooms booked in Columbus, Ohio, putting it on the hook for more than $70,000 and potentially establishing an unwanted precedent for other online travel companies. The city government filed a complaint against Expedia in...
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Cities Sue Online Travel Companies for Hotel Taxes
- The City of Atlanta is suing Travelocity, Orbitz, Expedia and 14 other online travel companies in Georgia Supreme Court for millions of dollars in unpaid hotel taxes. And the lawsuit is growing in popularity. Several officials contend that city coffers were raided by the online travel sites and filed similar cases...
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Travel Roundup: Boston's Higher Hotel Taxes, Harrah's Casino Meth Lab, Ryanair Cuts Flights and More
- Boston wants higher hotel and restaurant taxes -- Boston's Mayor Thomas M. Menino wants to tax hotels and restaurants more to raise revenue for his cash-strapped city. Menino is proposing a 2 percent rise in hotel tax, to a total of 14.45 percent in state and city taxes, and raising the meal tax...
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- La. Supreme Court ruling may block use of hotel taxes for WTC
- A Louisiana Supreme Court ruling Feb. 4 could block plans to use hotel occupancy taxes to redevelop the World Trade Center into a New Orleans hotel. The court ruled developers could not use designated sales tax proceeds to build a Bass Pro Shop in Denham Springs without...
- Research articles 2005-02-14
- Mississippi House Vote Keeps Proposed Hotel Tax Hike Alive.
- By Geoff Pender, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 2--JACKSON, Miss. -- A House vote Saturday technically keeps a proposal to raise hotel taxes in Harrison County to fund a Coast Coliseum expansion alive, but many expect the...
- Research articles 2004-05-02
- Travel Roundup: Las Vegas Sands' Macao IPO, Cruise Industry OKs Peepholes, Hong Kong Investors Buy S.F. W Hotel and More
- Las Vegas Sands Corp. may offer Macau IPO to raise cash -- Las Vegas Sands Corp. is considering an initial public offering of its Macao properties along with some business sales to raise a much-needed $3.5 to $4 billion. The company needs about $2 billion to finish a Macau hotel and...
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- Boston's Hotel Tax Hike
- I wrote about this story in my Roundup, but it deserves a takeout simply because it's going to be a trend in the coming year. Boston's mayor wants to hike both hotel and restaurant taxes called meal taxes to help with the city's loss of revenue. It's a move that...
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Travel Roundup: Train Derailment Delays, Delta Sells Stock, Jay-Z's Hotel Shelved and More
- Train derailment delays 3,000 Amtrak passengers -- Sixteen rail cars carrying automobiles derailed over the weekend near Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana and upset holiday travel for thousands of Amtrak passengers. Workers were struggling Monday night to rerail cars and reopen the Burlington Northern Santa Fe main line, which...
- Blog posts 2008-12-30
- Lower Your Taxes: 10 Moves to Make Now
- Don?t wait until December to look for ways to trim your 2009 taxes. That will be too late to take advantage of some key tax breaks that require a little time to implement. So start making these moves now ? before it?s too late to claim the write-offs on your...
- Articles 2009-11-02
- Travel Roundup: Atlanta's Online Travel Lawsuit, Alaska Flies Around Volcano, Yahoo! Ends FareChase and More
- Atlanta's lawsuit against online travel companies continues -- Atlanta's lawsuit against online travel companies, alleging they are withholding millions of dollars of hotel taxes, was upheld in Georgia Supreme Court. Now a Fulton County judge will decide the case, whether online travel companies are liable for the lost hotel and occupancy tax. The complaint...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- City will allow hotel to charge more in taxes.(News)
- Byline: Ames Boykin Daily Herald Staff Writer A month after work was set to begin on a new La Quinta Inn & Suites hotel in Des Plaines, the city instead is tweaking its redevelopment agreement to allow the hotel to charge more in taxes than...
- Research articles 2004-09-09
- Travel Roundup: Watergate Hotel's Auction, Carnival Cruise Murder, British Airways Bans H1N1 Passengers and More
- Watergate Hotel to be auctioned -- The Watergate Hotel, now empty since 2007, is on the block. The hotel, which had a role in the scandal which took down President Richard M. Nixon, will be auctioned Tuesday by the bank that holds its $40 million loan.  However, for whomever buys the 12-story...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- The Hilton harbinger.(Hilton hotel at Copenhagen Airport)
- Hilton expects to operate soon its hotel in Denmark at the Copenhagen Airport complex. At the moment, Hilton is the only international hotel chain with a presence in Denmark. Other hotel groups avoid the city citing their inability to make money coupled high labor costs and taxes. Sheraton used to...
- Research articles 1999-07-01
- Travel Roundup: Online Travel Owes $21 Million, Amtrak Cuts Prices, Allegiant Chooses LAX and More
- Online travel sites ordered to pay $21 million to Anaheim, Calif. -- Online travel Web sites including Expedia, Orbitz and Hotels.com were ordered to pay Anaheim, Calif. $21 million in lost hotel taxes last week. The online travel companies have been sued by numerous cities in an attempt to recoup lost...
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Crystal Lake finally gets paid for fire work Taxes for covering Holiday Inn to shift from Cary.(News)
- Byline: Charles Keeshan Daily Herald Staff Writer Since 1988, the Crystal Lake Fire Department has been responding to emergency calls at the city's Holiday Inn Hotel. For those same 12 years, the Cary Fire Protection District has been collecting taxes f or...
- Research articles 2001-02-15
- Bank to Pay Riverside County, Calif., Tax Bill to Hasten Sale of Hotel.
- By Jonathan Shikes, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 11--Six months after it shut the doors of the Palm Springs Marquis Hotel, Valley Independent Bank still hasn't found a buyer for the property. But the bank has...
- Research articles 2003-06-11
- Hotel Foreclosures: California Resorts to Follow Phoenix
- My travel roundup on Monday mentioned the trouble metro Phoenix resorts are facing -- foreclosure. While Phoenix's hotel industry is imploding, California's resorts also seem to be crumbling. According to a report by GlobeSt, the Golden State's hotel foreclosures have jumped 125 percent in the last two months....
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Texas Conference Committee Kills Proposal for Conference Hotel in Waco.
- By J.B. Smith, Waco Tribune-Herald, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 2--A state legislative committee has killed a proposal to use tax breaks to lure a four-star conference hotel to the banks of Lake Brazos, but the developer says he hasn't given...
- Research articles 2003-06-02
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