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  • Search results for: "french quarter"

40 Search Results Found For: ""french quarter""

  • Despite ballot wording, French Quarter hotel rooms are exempt from this security tax

    A tax agreement signed Thursday with the French Quarter Management District marked the final step toward resuming enhanced police patrols in the Vieux Carré and seemingly ended a contentious process
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  • New French Quarter Tax for Public Safety Should Apply to Hotel Rooms

    OVERVIEW In August, the New Orleans City Council excluded hotel room rentals from a new sales tax for enhanced public safety in the French Quarter despite questions about whether the exclusion is perm
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  • BGR Raises Policy Concerns About Excluding Hotel Rooms from New French Quarter Sales Tax

    In August, the New Orleans City Council excluded hotel room rentals from a new sales tax for enhanced public safety in the French Quarter despite questions about whether the exclusion is permissible u
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  • City Council members maintain legally dubious hotel exemption while reinstating French Quarter sales tax

    A special sales tax to fund supplemental police patrols in the French Quarter will be reinstated starting in October after expiring at the end of 2020. The tax was approved by voters in an April ballo
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  • French Quarter security tax delayed over demand for hotel exemption

    A quarter-cent sales tax in the French Quarter, approved by residents of the historic neighborhood earlier this year through a ballot measure, was meant to go into effect on July 1. But that date has
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  • Quarter-cent sales tax for French Quarter on ballot again Saturday

    NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – In order to fund the “Blue Light Patrols” in the Quarter, the reinstatement of the quarter-cent sales tax is back on the ballot after the initial renewal failed in Decem
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  • BGR Opposes French Quarter Sales Tax Proposition on April 24 Ballot

    NEW ORLEANS – The Bureau of Governmental Research is weighing in against a proposition for a 0.245% sales tax to pay for supplemental police patrols and other public safety services in the French Qu
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  • Against the French Quarter Sales Tax: Why the Bureau of Governmental Research is advising voters to vote ‘no.’

    NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)– For our viewers heading to the polls this weekend, there’s a new report out that you should know about before casting your ballot. The French Quarter Sales Tax is on Saturday
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  • BGR Analyzes New French Quarter Sales Tax on April 24 Ballot

    OVERVIEW BGR’s report, On the Ballot: French Quarter Sales Tax, April 24, 2021, is intended to help French Quarter voters make an informed decision on a proposition for a 0.245% sales tax to pay
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  • BGR Issues Report on April 24 French Quarter Sales Tax Vote

    Today the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) releases On the Ballot: French Quarter Sales Tax, April 24, 2021. The report is intended to help French Quarter voters make an informed decision on
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