Taxation (New Orleans)
The city should get a bigger chunk of hotel tax revenue, report says
By Michael Isaac Stein
Source: The Lens
January 30, 2019
A new report from the Bureau of Governmental Research released on Wednesday found a lack of accountability and transparency when it...New Orleans should regain ‘lost’ hotel tax money to fix drainage and roads, watchdog group says
By Beau Evans
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
January 30, 2019
A one-percent tax on New Orleans hotel sales should return to city coffers, as it was decades ago before that local...
Money should not be taken from tourism for infrastructure needs: Billy Nungesser
By Julia O'Donoghue
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
January 16, 2019
Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser doesn’t think New Orleans hotel tax revenue should be redirected from state marketing, tourism and sports-related organizations...Cantrell’s quest for more infrastructure dollars centers on $160 million in tourism taxes
By Tyler Bridges
Source: The Advocate
January 12, 2019
In her push to find money to improve New Orleans’ decrepit infrastructure, Mayor LaToya Cantrell is targeting a share...
Should New Orleans have a drainage fee? City Council member is wary
By Beau Evans
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
December 20, 2018
New Orleans Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer warned this week that she would not support any new fee levied on residents...Superdome, arenas get record-setting boost from hotel taxes: audit
By Kevin Litten
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
December 17, 2018
The Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District, the state entity with oversight of Mercedes-Benz Superdome and Smoothie King Center, raked...Latest New Orleans hotel tax idea could generate $6.7M for city projects; LaToya Cantrell calls plan ‘inadequate’
By Jeff Adelson
Source: The Advocate
December 6, 2018
Facing political pressure to share some of their hotel tax revenue with city agencies, New Orleans tourism leaders on...New Orleans hospitality leaders pitch hotel sales tax increase dedicated to local infrastructure
By Beau Evans
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
December 6, 2018
New Orleans hospitality industry and business representatives are pitching a plan to raise $81 million in one-time money to...
Edwards refuses to shift hotel tax dollars to S&WB
By Danny Monteverde
Source: WWL-TV
November 20, 2018
Gov. John Bel Edwards on Monday said definitively that he will not support a plan by Mayor LaToya Cantrell...Gov. John Bel Edwards on State Priorities of Local Importance
November 13, 2018
Governor John Bel Edwards presented at a BGR Breakfast Briefing on State of Louisiana priorities of local importance. BGR...