Hotel Tax Increase Should Boost Local Business, Officials Hope
The Port Washington Common Council approved an ordinance increasing the hotel/motel tax for the city in hopes of generating more money to use for marketing to tourists.
Officials unanimously approved an ordinance increasing Port Washington's hotel/motel tax on Tuesday night in hopes of bringing in an extra $30,000 to use for marketing of the city. The increase moves the tax from 7 percent to 8 percent; the additional funds will go to the Port Washington Tourism department for use in promoting the city, with target markets stressed by council members including Iowa and Chicago. "My hope is … we can be creative with some of those different funding resources that (are) not currently available to us," Mlada said at an earlier meeting when the idea was introduced. "We need to utilize the people that have been coming to our city." Tourists from these and other markets that visit Port Washington impact many …
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Terry
6:48 pm on Saturday, December 8, 2012
Uselding? Also known as Little Vegas? Oh, yea. He knows people. Good point. If our local government seems unconcerned by these gambling machines, why not tax those instead? more ›