DOVER — Lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill to place a tax on short-term vacation rental units, including campgrounds and bed and breakfasts.
House Bill 130 would expand the already-existing 8 percent public accommodation tax placed on hotels. The state estimates adding it to other dwellings would bring in between $8-$11 million on an annual basis.
The tax would be allocated in the same way as funds collected from hotels: 5 percent would go to the Delaware General Fund, 1 percent would fund the Delaware Tourism Office, 1 percent would cover beach preservation and 1 percent would go to convention and visitors’ bureaus in each county.
A short-term rental unit is defined as a place used for no more than 120 days.
“I am typically the last person to want to impose any kind of tax in Delaware,” main sponsor Rep. Deborah Hudson, R-Hockessin, said in a statement. “However, in this case, I think the circumstances are different. This is a tax that is not being collected equally.
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4 comments:
More money, more money, we need more money because we are the government and we know how to spend your money better than you do. Beside, you might spend it on something stupid, like food or rent or clothing.
That's so they can bailout the casinos,DOH!
Thats what they do.
Constantly raising taxes, fines, fees, surcharges.
Looking ever so carefully at ANYTHING that isn't taxed and fixing THAT problem. Wth you know what. NEW taxes.
If these bozo thieves who have, themselves, legalized all the scams they have going or innoculated themslves from direct association with bribes, payoffs, kickbacks, and favors, were actually frugal with OUR money, "we, the people" wouldn't be so uh, um .....angry.
Instead, they spend money like it is spurting from a magic fountain that will never run dry. Financial mismanagment, Gross fiduciary negligience. Fraud. Collusion. Thousands of "we, the people" are doing hard time for those crimes. In some hard prisons. What do our "leaders" get? One of the most lucrative and envied jobs on the planet? Two sets of Laws.
They can't be charged with a crime. Not for doing "the business of the USA", as they call it.
It will not get any better. Look at the republican resistance to Trump's effort to honor his promises (the one that swept him into power and ruined a dozen top political heroes.
REPUBLICANS!
Just pay and shut the hell up.
That's not ME saying that, it's THEM.
Keep cheering.
Off his meds again!
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