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42 Search Results Found For: "stadium"

  • Restoring 1 percent hotel sales tax for New Orleans infrastructure is a non-starter, tourism officials say

    Restoring a 1 percent sales tax on New Orleans hotels would be a step too much for the city’s tourism industry to bear, leading industry representatives said Wednesday (Jan. 30), responding to a&nbs
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  • The city should get a bigger chunk of hotel tax revenue, report says

    A new report from the Bureau of Governmental Research released on Wednesday found a lack of accountability and transparency when it comes to New Orleans hotel tax revenue, and recommended th
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  • New Orleans should regain ‘lost’ hotel tax money to fix drainage and roads, watchdog group says

    A one-percent tax on New Orleans hotel sales should return to city coffers, as it was decades ago before that local tax was halted to let the state collect its own tax revenue to build the S
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  • Money should not be taken from tourism for infrastructure needs: Billy Nungesser

    Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser doesn’t think New Orleans hotel tax revenue should be redirected from state marketing, tourism and sports-related organizations to deal with the city’s drainage
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  • Cantrell’s quest for more infrastructure dollars centers on $160 million in tourism taxes

    In her push to find money to improve New Orleans’ decrepit infrastructure, Mayor LaToya Cantrell is targeting a share of the $160 million in sales and hotel taxes that are collected each year to pro
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  • Potholes, water woes: New Orleans seeks more of tourist tax

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A night’s stay at a New Orleans hotel can take as much as a 15 percent bite in taxes and fees. Yet barely more than 1 in 10 of those tax and fee dollars — out of an estimated
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  • Superdome, arenas get record-setting boost from hotel taxes: audit

    The Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District, the state entity with oversight of Mercedes-Benz Superdome and Smoothie King Center, raked in an additional $2.6 million in hotel taxes in 2017, pushing
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  • Gov. Edwards opposes plan to redirect hotel taxes to New Orleans infrastructure

    A plan by New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell to ask state lawmakers to shift some hotel taxes from tourism to the ailing infrastructure of the Sewerage & Water Board was dealt a major, and likely f
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  • Jeff Sadow: Mayor Cantrell’s idea to fund New Orleans S&WB should be no brainer for Legislature

    Let New Orleans drown in water and red ink or stop giving special interests money to finance their real-life Monopoly game? It should be a no-brainer for Louisiana lawmakers. Earlier this month, Mayor
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  • Hotel tax on the table in meetings with Mayor Cantrell, hospitality industry leaders

    New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is poised to meet with hotel and tourism industry leaders this week to broach potential tweaks to the existing occupancy tax dedica
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