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Today's Poll!Opposition to Jefferson City lodging tax hike emerges
4 hoteliers: Conference center plan doesn’t make sense
Sunday, January 30, 2011
While the supporters of the proposed 4 cent lodging tax increase indicate that approving the piece of legislation will be a good thing and will not affect voters, not everyone necessarily agrees with that sentiment.
A growing number of Jefferson City hotel owners have raised concerns about how the lodging tax would be increased from 3 cents to 7 cents per dollar. They say the 4-cent increase would affect their business, as well as voters.
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JCLifer 2 years, 3 months ago
Finally some of the local businesses have realized that this huge tax increase to be used to build a city-run competing motel and convention space is not going to help their own existing low occupancy rates.
VOTE NO on the lodging tax increase!
MK 2 years, 3 months ago
They definitely know how to shove taxes down the people's throats. First, target a minority of people who will be charged with paying the taxes and then allow the large majority of people to vote on it. Of course alot of people who may feel they have something to gain from this are going to vote to place that burden for it on other's shoulders. There will be a few people who will do what's right and vote no out of principle, but I bet its not enough to protect the local hotel industry from bearing the brunt of the expense, hassle and responsibility for propping up the city's and many other businesses' financial interests.
Its simply a form of legalized government sponsored racketeering. Otherwise they would just allow the hotel industry insiders and employees to be the only ones to vote on it. Raising the rates their customers will be paying surely can't be helping those businesses at all.
waldo 2 years, 3 months ago
o Proposed 34,000s/f facility. o In this facility they will need about 10,000s/f of space for their kitchen (walk-ins – refrig & freezer, dish-room, prep and cook areas, dry goods storage, liquor storage, etc), storage space for the tables and chairs and miscellaneous equipment, employee bathroom facilities, guest bathroom facilities and just access corridors to get in and out of the main meeting space. o That leaves 24,000s/f of space for the conference center, breakout rooms, pre-function space, offices and classroom space for Lincoln. o Capitol Plaza Hotel has 22,000s/f of actual meeting space. o Truman Hotel has 24,000s/f of actual meeting space. o That means that it will be comparable in size to the 2 existing convention hotels already in JC. o What good will that do Jefferson City? None. It will just move business around that is already coming to town.
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