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...

BGR: New Quarter Sales Tax Should Apply to Hotel Rooms

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

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

A special sales tax to fund supplemental police patrols in the French Quarter will be reinstated starting in October...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Opinion: Newell: Cantrell admin hits French Quarter group with ridiculous attack

Earlier this week, Mayor Cantrell’s Director of Strategic Initiatives Joshua Cox had a press conference wherein he accused the...