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Despite ballot wording, French Quarter hotel rooms are exempt from this security tax
By Ben Myers
Source: The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
October 1, 2021
A tax agreement signed Thursday with the French Quarter Management District marked the final step toward resuming enhanced police...BGR: New Quarter Sales Tax Should Apply to Hotel Rooms
By Biz New Orleans Staff
Source: Biz New Orleans
September 14, 2021
NEW ORLEANS – From the Bureau of Governmental Research: Today, the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) published a new...BGR Raises Policy Concerns About Excluding Hotel Rooms from New French Quarter Sales Tax
September 14, 2021
In August, the New Orleans City Council excluded hotel room rentals from a new sales tax for enhanced public...City Council members maintain legally dubious hotel exemption while reinstating French Quarter sales tax
By Michael Isaac Stein
Source: The Lens
August 19, 2021
A special sales tax to fund supplemental police patrols in the French Quarter will be reinstated starting in October...
National Association Honors Bureau of Governmental Research
By Biz New Orleans Staff
Source: Biz New Orleans
August 3, 2021
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – The Governmental Research Association honored the Bureau of Governmental Research with two research awards...
Council puts library and housing property tax renewals on the November ballot
By Michael Isaac Stein
Source: The Lens
July 15, 2021
Orleans Parish voters will decide in November whether to renew two property taxes that expire at the end of...Quarter-cent sales tax for French Quarter on ballot again Saturday
By Kaitlin Rust
Source: FOX 8
April 22, 2021
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – In order to fund the “Blue Light Patrols” in the Quarter, the reinstatement of the...BGR Opposes French Quarter Sales Tax Proposition on April 24 Ballot
By Biz New Orleans Staff
Source: Biz New Orleans
April 22, 2021
NEW ORLEANS – The Bureau of Governmental Research is weighing in against a proposition for a 0.245% sales tax...Against the French Quarter Sales Tax: Why the Bureau of Governmental Research is advising voters to vote ‘no.’
By Peyton LoCicero
Source: WGNO
April 22, 2021
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)– For our viewers heading to the polls this weekend, there’s a new report out that you should know...BGR Issues Report on April 24 French Quarter Sales Tax Vote
April 21, 2021
Today the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) releases On the Ballot: French Quarter Sales Tax, April 24, 2021. The report...