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  • Council approves short-term rental tax, with 25 percent cut going to tourism marketing agency

    At the request of Mayor LaToya Cantrell, the New Orleans City Council on Thursday gave final approval to a long-anticipated 6.75 percent tax on short-term rental bookings. Thursday’s ordinance codif
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  • PolicyWatch: New Orleans Budget and Tax Updates

    OVERVIEW Welcome to the inaugural edition of PolicyWatch, a periodic newsletter that draws on BGR’s body of independent, nonpartisan research to address current public policy issues. This edition fo
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  • Convention Center proposes settlement over disputed public transit dollars

    The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center has presented a proposal to Mayor LaToya Cantrell to settle a yearlong dispute with the Regional Transit Authority over millions in tax dollars split between t
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  • At meeting this week, more details emerge on new convention center hotel deal

    The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center reached a deal last week with a consortium of private developers to build a new 1,200-room hotel on the center’s upriver side, with public subsidie
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  • It takes a millage: New Orleans voters will decide on a redistribution of parks and rec funds

    The sole item on the May 4 ballot in New Orleans is a citywide referendum often referred to as “Parks and Rec.” The ballot proposition could just as easily be cast as a vote on the future of New O
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  • Tax for New Orleans parks and rec backed by watchdog group

    The Bureau of Governmental Research gave its blessing Tuesday (April 9) for a ballot proposal in New Orleans aimed at maintaining the current amount of property taxes charged for local parks and recre
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  • Fair Play, Fair Share, Part 1: New Orleans and the Lost Penny

    It’s 2019, but looking at some of the city’s old and antiquated infrastructure, it doesn’t feel like it. We have a pumping system that includes parts that are over a hundred years old, and a wat
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  • Key to Cantrell’s 2019 legislative agenda? Tourism cash to rebuild New Orleans S&WB, more

    Less than a month away from the start of the 2019 legislative session, Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s legislative agenda is being shaped by her push to divert millions of tax dollars from state-sponsor
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  • Cantrell pressing governor to use convention center funds for New Orleans infrastructure

    New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has signaled she wants $75 million for city infrastructure repairs straight from the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center’s reserve account, tapping money from h
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  • Death and Hotel Taxes: BGR releases new report on New Orleans hotel sales tax

    The old idiom that nothing is certain but death and taxes remains true, with the possible addition of Roger Goodell’s loathing of the Saints to round out the list. The certainty surrounding taxes, h
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