|
Date |
Paper |
Article Title |
|
26 Dec 2002 |
South China Morning Post |
Departure tax
could be a blessing for struggling retailers |
|
23 Dec 2002 |
Albuquerque (NM) Tribune |
Travel
bureau tables hotel tax hike |
|
21 Dec 2002 |
Associated Press |
Atlantic to consider hotel tax |
|
20 Dec 2002 |
South China Morning Post |
Departure tax is
likely by summer |
|
19 Dec 2002 |
Korea Herald |
Travel
agents call for no VAT on foreign tourists' hotel bills |
|
18 Dec 2002 |
Standard Examiner (UT) |
Davis County, Utah, officials adopt
tourism tax ordinance |
|
18 Dec 2002 |
Jiji Press Service |
Tokyo government
receives ¥
109m for Oct. |
|
18 Dec 2002 |
St. Louis (MO)
Post-Dispatch |
County hotel tax windfall is key in ballpark
talks |
|
17 Dec 2002 |
Australian Financial
Review |
Security
cost: user pays is the way to go |
|
16 Dec 2002 |
Charleston (SC) Post and
Courier |
Reasonable
restaurant tax hike |
|
16 Dec 2002 |
Ottawa (ON) Citizen |
No room
for this tax |
|
15 Dec 2002 |
Boston Globe |
Town seeks more
revenue from hotel tax |
|
14 Dec 2002 |
London Daily Telegraph |
Eco tax
'unfair' |
|
13 Dec 2002 |
Pittsburgh (PA)
Post-Gazette |
School district's
tax fight headed to court |
|
13 Dec 2002 |
Regina Leader-Post |
Tax plans
blasted |
|
12 Dec 2002 |
Aviation Daily |
Mullin
says Congress must act quickly on airline tax relief |
|
12 Dec 2002 |
Wisconsin State Journal |
Why it pays
to pay hotel tax |
|
12 Dec 2002 |
Patriot Ledger (MA) |
Rockland's hotel
tax increase request to be re-filed |
|
12 Dec 2002 |
Toronto Star |
MPs want air
security tax reduced |
|
12 Dec 2002 |
The Advertiser (AU) |
Air security
'a new tax' |
|
10 Dec 2002 |
Buffalo (NY) News |
$1.1 million
in taxes from hotels left unpaid |
|
10 Dec 2002 |
Columbia (MO) Daily
Tribune |
Columbia visitors bureau seeks to resolve
bed-tax disagreement |
|
9 Dec 2002 |
St. Louis (MO)
Post-Dispatch |
Officials in Arnold decide to put hotel tax
on April ballot |
|
7 Dec 2002 |
Toronto Star |
Province rejects hotel tax |
|
6 Dec 2002 |
Canada NewsWire |
ALPA pilots
press Canada government for relief from oppressive airline taxes |
|
6 Dec 2002 |
Financial Post |
Security fee
hitting hard, short-haul carriers say |
|
6 Dec 2002 |
Wilmington (NC) Star-News |
Wrightsville
Beach OKs hotel tax hike |
|
5 Dec 2002 |
Stuart (FL) News |
Tourism panel backs new bed tax |
|
5 Dec 2002 |
Irish Times |
Reduced capital allowance 'will halt new
hotels' |
|
5 Dec 2002 |
Palm Beach (FL) Post |
St. Lucie bed tax to drop for January
|
|
4 Dec 2002 |
Associated Press |
City council approves spending hotel tax to cover
security costs |
|
4 Dec 2002 |
Lancaster (PA) New Era |
Court again
rejects hotel-tax lawsuit |
|
28 Nov 2002 |
Pittsburgh (PA)
Post-Gazette |
Tax on rental
cars dies on political vine |
|
27 Nov 2002 |
Stuart (FL) News |
If county builds it, will they come? |
|
27 Nov 2002 |
The Courier Mail (AU) |
Aussie
holidays more taxing than any other |
|
27 Nov 2002 |
The Courier Mail (AU) |
Labor warns
of travel levy threat to families |
|
26 Nov 2002 |
Buffalo (NY) News |
Bed taxes for
new tourism agency withheld |
|
26 Nov 2002 |
Toronto Star |
Security tax
called world's highest |
|
26 Nov 2002 |
South China Morning Post |
North Korea pins
hopes on tourism in latest SAR |
|
26 Nov 2002 |
Australian Financial
Review |
Tourism industry will fight security tax
slug |
|
26 Nov 2002 |
The Courier Mail (AU) |
Flyers may
face tourism levy |
|
26 Nov 2002 |
Calgary (AB) Sun |
Fed tax has
airline revenues in a tailspin |
|
26 Nov 2002 |
Deutsche Presse-Agentur |
Warning about
increasing effects of air travel on global warming |
|
26 Nov 2002 |
Ottawa (ON) Citizen |
High
taxes, fees, discourage air travel, hurt service: study |
|
25 Nov 2002 |
Daily Express (Scotland) |
Scots suffer
£30 million rip-off in air fares |
|
25 Nov 2002 |
Canadian Corporate
Newswire |
Stop squeezing air
travelers, ATAC says |
|
25 Nov 2002 |
Australian Associated
Press |
Fed: Tourism
shouldn't pay for extra airport security |
|
25 Nov 2002 |
Calgary (AB) Herald |
Tourist tax
touted for Banff |
|
25 Nov 2002 |
Calgary (AB) Sun |
Resort town
revenue rocky |
|
25 Nov 2002 |
Australian Financial
Review |
Longer wait
for tourism blueprint |
|
25 Nov 2002 |
Agence France Presse |
North Korea
designates tax-free international tourism zone |
|
24 Nov 2002 |
Orlando (FL) Sentinel |
Hidden fees drive up the cost of renting a
car |
|
24 Nov 2002 |
Knoxville (TN)
News-Sentinel |
Clinton passes
controversial 3 percent hotel tax |
|
23 Nov 2002 |
Cairns (AU) Post |
Environmental
levy push |
|
22 Nov 2002 |
Wilmington (NC) Star-News |
County
dislikes fine print in hotel-tax bills |
|
22 Nov 2002 |
Australian Associated
Press |
Official calls for
world heritage visitor tax |
|
21 Nov 2002 |
Albany (NY) Times-Union |
Hotel hike
loses steam |
|
21 Nov 2002 |
Columbia (MO) Daily
Tribune |
Columbia
festivals caught in dispute over hotel tax |
|
21 Nov 2002 |
Albuquerque (NM) Tribune |
Mayor
supports effort to add new lodgers fee |
|
19 Nov 2002 |
The Courier Mail (AU) |
Get rid of
ticket tax, says Virgin |
|
19 Nov 2002 |
Albany (NY) Times-Union |
Panel opposes hike in hotel tax |
|
19 Nov 2002 |
Melbourne (AU) Herald Sun |
Virgin blue over levies |
|
18 Nov 2002 |
London Times |
Jet
pollution tax 'would fund new airport in Kent' |
|
17 Nov 2002 |
Washington Post |
Add-ons add up |
|
16 Nov 2002 |
Wellington (NZ) Dominion
Post |
More 'hidden' costs for travellers |
|
15 Nov 2002 |
New Orleans (LA)
Times-Picayune |
Tourism panel OKs new tax |
|
15 Nov 2002 |
The Australian |
Airport terror tax mooted |
|
13 Nov 2002 |
The Pantagraph (IL) |
Bloomington
increases hotel tax |
|
13 Nov 2002 |
Wilmington (NC) Star-News |
Carolina
Beach adds room tax |
|
13 Nov 2002 |
Buffalo (NY) News |
Two lawmakers
pushing 5% bed tax |
|
9 Nov 2002 |
Financial Post (Canada) |
Air security tax to stay at $24, Ottawa
says |
|
8 Nov 2002 |
Ottawa (ON) Citizen |
Cut taxes, fees, Air Canada asks |
|
8 Nov 2002 |
Montreal Gazette |
Taxes, fees killing airline industry |
|
6 Nov 2002 |
Columbus (OH) Dispatch |
Mayor promises cuts after defeat of $4/day
fee |
|
1 Nov 2002 |
Albany (NY) Times Union |
Higher rates offset fewer guests |
|
28 Oct 2002 |
The Business Press (CA) |
Bed tax
seen as key to Ontario hotel remodeling |
|
24 Oct 2002 |
Chicago Daily Herald |
Officials to ask for home-rule
authority |
|
24 Oct 2002 |
Washington Post |
Warner wants to tap counties' car rental
tax |
|
23 Oct 2002 |
Cleveland (OH) Plain
Dealer |
Lake County bed tax increase considered |
|
22 Oct 2002 |
Associated Press |
State drops suit against tribal resort in Polson |
|
22 Oct 2002 |
Australian Financial
Review |
Tourism
chiefs call for restraint |
|
22 Oct 2002 |
Moscow Herald |
Foreign
airlines fly into tax feud |
|
22 Oct 2002 |
Evening Standard (UK) |
Banks
plan tourism tax for London |
|
22 Oct 2002 |
Wilmington (NC) Star-News |
Tourism
authority will use money from new hotel tax |
|
21 Oct 2002 |
Travel Trade Gazette UK &
Ireland |
Hilton calls for
tourism tax cut |
|
17 Oct 2002 |
San Diego (CA)
Union-Tribune |
Del Mar's
Prop. G encounters no resistance |
|
17 Oct 2002 |
San Antonio (TX)
Express-News |
Tourism
industry feels pinch from arena tax |
|
17 Oct 2002 |
Korea Herald |
Incheon
airport tax to rise in December |
|
16 Oct 2002 |
Albany (NY) Times Union |
City seeks state OK to boost bed tax |
|
15 Oct 2002 |
The Australian |
Tax hikes in
wake of 9/11 |
|
13 Oct 2002 |
The Observer (UK) |
Gambia imposes £5 tourist tax |
|
12 Oct 2002 |
Columbus (OH) Dispatch |
Greed or need? Views on rental-car tax
debated |
|
11 Oct 2002 |
Southland Times (NZ) |
Opposition to resort bed tax |
|
10 Oct 2002 |
Albuquerque (NM) Journal |
Increase sought in hotel tax |
|
10 Oct 2002 |
Columbus (OH) Dispatch |
Car-rental ad turns the (tax) tables on
city |
|
9 Oct 2002 |
Agence France Presse |
Tourism levy yields
€30 million for Mediterranean isles |
|
8 Oct 2002 |
Newsday (NY) |
Report: Tourism
a key tax source |
|
8 Oct 2002 |
Edmonton (AB) Journal |
Steve
West lobbies for tourism tax
|
|
8 Oct 2002 |
Associated Press |
Tourism industry says Martz tax plan unfair
|
|
7 Oct 2002 |
Aviation Daily |
China
boosting passenger tax to shore up airports |
|
5 Oct 2002 |
Lancaster (PA)
Intelligencer Journal |
Court ends
bid for hotel tax retrial |
|
4 Oct 2002 |
Wilmington (NC) Star-News |
Southport
gets OK to raise occupancy tax |
|
3 Oct 2002 |
Columbus (OH) Dispatch |
Groups support car-rental tax issue |
|
3 Oct 2002 |
Southland Times (NZ) |
Davies thinks departure tax morally wrong |
|
3 Oct 2002 |
Southland Times (NZ) |
Council urged to raise rates |
|
3 Oct 2002 |
St. Louis (MO)
Post-Dispatch |
Tax on hotel, motel rooms will rise to help
cover convention center costs |
|
2 Oct 2002 |
Australian Financial
Review |
Tourism to fight new tax plans |
|
2 Oct 2002 |
Sarasota (FL) Herald
Tribune |
Firm tells
county it has the clout for tax hike |
|
2 Oct 2002 |
Columbus (OH) Dispatch |
Rental-car tax crucial for services, Mayor
says |
|
2 Oct 2002 |
Topeka (KS)
Capital-Journal |
City passes bed tax increase |
|
2 Oct 2002 |
Asahi News Service |
Tokyo hotel
surtax goes into effect |
|
1 Oct 2002 |
Topeka (KS)
Capital-Journal |
Seeing both
sides of the bed tax |
|
1 Oct 2002 |
Agence France Presse |
Tokyo levies new hotel tax for tourism promotion |
|
28 Sep 2002 |
Wilmington (NC) Star-News |
Kure Beach
won't take tax |
|
27 Sep 2002 |
Southland Times (NZ) |
Burton
cautious on tourist bed tax |
|
25 Sep 2002 |
Topeka (KS)
Capital-Journal |
Hotel owner
speaks out against bed tax increase |
|
25 Sep 2002 |
Tampa (FL) Tribune |
County ponders use of tourist tax funds |
|
25 Sep 2002 |
Chicago Daily Herald |
City
council says it won't abuse home rule |
|
25 Sep 2002 |
Albany (NY) Times Union |
Hike
considered for city bed tax |
|
24 Sep 2002 |
Chicago Daily Herald |
Oakbrook Terrace likely to seek home rule again |
|
24 Sep 2002 |
Cairns (AU) Post |
Tourist tax key
to preservation |
|
24 Sep 2002 |
Chicago Daily Herald |
Itasca may again seek home rule |
|
24 Sep 2002 |
Cairns (AU) Post |
Rainforest
visitor tax |
|
24 Sep 2002 |
Albany (NY) Times Union |
City looks
to boost hotel tax |
|
23 Sep 2002 |
The Courier-Mail (AU) |
Call for
rainforest tourist tax |
|
18 Sep 2002 |
The Day (CT) |
Connecticut
tourism officials worried about hotel tax |
|
18 Sep 2002 |
Springfield (IL) State
Journal-Register |
Hotel tax
increase rejected |
|
16 Sep 2002 |
The Courier-Mail (AU) |
Airline tax
unfair, says Virgin boss |
|
13 Sep 2002 |
St. Louis (MO)
Post-Dispatch |
St. Charles weighs hike in hotel tax to ease
cost for center |
|
13 Sep 2002 |
Toronto Star |
Toronto
tourism on the decline |
|
12 Sep 2002 |
New Orleans (LA)
Times-Picayune |
Parish
considering hotel-motel tax |
|
12 Sep 2002 |
The Bond Buyer |
No Cards
stadium for Mesa |
|
11 Sep 2002 |
Stuart (FL) News |
Voters approve 2 percent bed tax |
|
9 Sep 2002 |
Columbus (OH) Dispatch |
Boon or bane? City visitors get mixed signals |
|
8 Sep 2002 |
Montreal Gazette |
Minister looks to ease airport security tax |
|
7 Sep 2002 |
Toronto Star |
Collenette
considers cuts to $24 air security levy |
|
5 Sep 2002 |
Stuart (FL) News |
Council gearing up for bed tax push |
|
5 Sep 2002 |
Associated Press |
House considering tourism tax breaks
|
|
5 Sep 2002 |
Southland Times (NZ) |
Council hopes
for support on bed tax |
|
4 Sep 2002 |
Allentown (PA) Morning
Call |
Hotel tax to aid tourism efforts |
|
2 Sep 2002 |
Christian Science Monitor |
Ambushed by added fees |
|
3 Sep 2002 |
Deutsche Presse-Agentur |
Majorca
hoteliers refuse payment of tourism tax |
|
2 Sep 2002 |
The
Press (Christchurch, NZ) |
Tourist tax, road
toll call |
|
31 Aug 2002 |
London Daily Telegraph |
Eco-tax blamed for visitor slump
|
|
30 Aug 2002 |
Associated Press |
Task force will recommend limited sales tax |
|
30 Aug 2002 |
Southland Times (NZ) |
Mayor vows
tourism study move |
|
29 Aug 2002 |
Springfield (IL) State
Journal Register |
Six-month hike in hotel tax urged |
|
29 Aug 2002 |
Wilmington (NC) Star-News |
Local
officials head to Raleigh to lobby for hotel room tax |
|
29 Aug 2002 |
Associated Press |
State may help finance PGA Tour's Reno-Tahoe Open
|
|
26 Aug 2002 |
Travel Trade Gazette UK &
Ireland |
Extend abolition of taxes |
|
26 Aug 2002 |
Caribbean Media
Corporation |
Caribbean must take action on cruise lines, senior
official says |
|
24 Aug 2002 |
Topeka (KS)
Capital-Journal |
Councilman
encourages bed tax increase to 6 percent |
|
22 Aug 2002 |
Allentown (PA) Morning
Call |
Bucks hotel room tax increases |
|
19 Aug 2002 |
St. Petersburg (FL) Times |
Tourism leaders spar over money |
|
19 Aug 2002 |
St. Louis (MO)
Post-Dispatch |
Bond issue, hotel tax will appear on
November ballot in Festus |
|
18 Aug 2002 |
San Francisco Chronicle |
Cities sticking visitors with sports stadium
costs |
|
18 Aug 2002 |
Pittsburgh (PA)
Post-Gazette |
Putting Butler on the map |
|
17 Aug 2002 |
Financial Times |
The Balearics lament their lost riffraff |
|
16 Aug 2002 |
Edinburgh Evening News |
UK tourism
'damaged by extortionate VAT' |
|
15 Aug 2002 |
Agence France Presse |
Taiwan considers waiving sales tax for tourists |
|
14 Aug 2002 |
St. Petersburg (FL) Times |
Commission
changes taxes |
|
12 Aug 2002 |
Daily Express (Scotland) |
Capital
wants tourists to pay new levy |
|
12 Aug 2002 |
Deutsche Presse-Agentur |
Bulgaria to
introduce visitor tax in 2003 |
|
11 Aug 2002 |
St. Petersburg (FL) Times |
County weighs
hiking tourist tax to 3 percent |
|
5 Aug 2002 |
Travel Trade Gazette UK &
Ireland |
Eco-tax will hit
next year |
|
28 Jul 2002 |
Denver (CO) Post |
Tourism firms
urge government alliance |
|
18 Jul 2002 |
Nelson (NZ) Mail |
No bed tax here
says Matheson |
|
17 Jul 2002 |
Nelson (NZ) Mail |
Bedding a new
tax |
|
17 Jul 2002 |
The Advertiser (Australia) |
Hoteliers
had no say in reports on profits |
|
17 Jul 2002 |
The Advertiser (Australia) |
Higher
landing fee lifts hidden cost of air travel |
|
16 Jul 2002 |
USA Today |
New
surcharges drive up bills on car rentals |
|
16 Jul 2002 |
Southland Times (NZ) |
Room tax
rejected as 'history' |
|
15 Jul 2002 |
The Advertiser (Australia) |
Don't you
dare raise your prices |
|
13 Jul 2002 |
The Advertiser (Australia) |
$140 million
of cash lost |
|
12 Jul 2002 |
Victoria (BC)
Times-Colonist |
Reassessing
room-tax has tourism concerned |
|
12 Jul 2002 |
The Australian |
Robin Hood
tax on pokie profits |
|
11 Jul 2002 |
The Independent (London) |
Sun, sea
but no visitors: Spain's hot spots lose their appeal for Britons |
|
9 Jul 2002 |
Southland Times (NZ) |
Room tax
backed |
|
2 Jul 2002 |
Columbus (OH) Dispatch |
Rental car firms tell Mayor to take a hike |
|
30 Jun 2002 |
Pittsburgh (PA)
Post-Gazette |
County's bid to tax rental cars stalls out |
|
28 Jun 2002 |
Pittsburgh (PA)
Post-Gazette |
Rental car surcharge expected to be approved by legislature |
|
28 Jun 2002 |
Ottawa (ON) Citizen |
Airport to boost departure tax 50% |
|
27 Jun 2002 |
South China Morning Post |
Wine tax increase approved |
|
27 Jun 2002 |
Omaha (NE) World-Herald |
Part of tourism
reserve fund will go to new riverfront park |
|
26 Jun 2002 |
Pittsburgh (PA)
Post-Gazette |
Car rental tax
tied to convention center
|
|
25 Jun 2002 |
Africa News |
Kenyan
government waives import tax on hotel equipment
|
|
25 Jun 2002 |
Columbus (OH) Dispatch |
Rental car tax OK'd; will expire in 2005 |
|
24 Jun 2002 |
Houston (TX) Chronicle |
Fans paying for Reliant's extras |
|
24 Jun 2002 |
Toronto Sun |
Ottawa mulls lower air tax |
|
24 Jun 2002 |
The Advertiser
(Australia) |
Airport taxes up 60 percent and rising |
|
23 Jun 2002 |
Ottawa (ON) Citizen |
Airport security tax to be lowered |
|
23 Jun 2002 |
Sydney Sun-Herald |
No end to skyway robbery |
|
23 Jun 2002 |
Victoria (BC)
Times-Colonist |
The sky-high hidden costs of air travel |
|
23 Jun 2002 |
Columbus (OH) Dispatch |
Council weighs options for new tax on car
rentals |
|
22 Jun 2002 |
Financial Post |
Eurocrats v. chefs |
|
22 Jun 2002 |
Minneapolis (MN)
Star-Tribune |
Extra fees, taxes give car renters
sticker shock |
|
21 Jun 2002 |
Toronto Star |
WestJet's $3
flights top $80 after fees, taxes tacked on |
|
21 Jun 2002 |
The Daily Telegraph (AUS) |
Taxes, charges
and levies weigh down air travel
|
|
20 Jun 2002 |
Associated Press |
EU nixes French plan to cut tax on restaurant
meals to fast-food levels
|
|
20 Jun 2002 |
Australasian Business
Intelligence |
On the boil over
"fresh air" tax |
|
20 Jun 2002 |
San Diego (CA)
Union-Tribune |
Poway to
vote on increasing hotel room tax |
|
19 Jun 2002 |
San Diego (CA)
Union-Tribune |
Del Mar
will ask voters to raise hotel room tax to 10.5% |
|
17 Jun 2002 |
St. Louis (MO)
Post-Dispatch |
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