Tourism, Tax Funding in Spotlight Again

Summary

---

A bill that would require counties to tell the state how they spend tax money on tourism facilities and activities passed out of a Senate committee Thursday, but not before some lawmakers pushed for a study about whether public facilities are competing with private- sector restaurants and concert venues.

HB40 requires counties to report to the state on their use of tourism, recreation, cultural and convention facilities tax funds, known as the TRCC tax assessed at restaurants. It also calls for the counties to report on the use of the TRCC and transient room tax, or TRT or hotel room tax, spending by certain categories.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

Tourism, Tax Funding in Spotlight Again

The TRT report would detail spending for recreation, tourism, film production and conventions, plus the building and operation of tourism facilities. For TRCC, counties would need to list spending on financing tourism promotion or developing and ...

See the full content of this document

---