Sunny views of tax raise
Sunny views of tax raise
- October 28, 2010
- Jan Brueckner, economics professor and department chair, is quoted in the Daily Pilot October 26, 2010
From the Daily Pilot:
Tourists who spend a few nights in town could pay the same amount of taxes here as
they would in neighboring Orange County cities if voters approve Measure L, the ballot
initiative that would increase the city's hotel tax.... Jan K. Brueckner, an economics
professor at UC Irvine, has said most people do not check the hotel tax before booking
rooms. These taxes are easy to collect because they don't directly affect the city's
residents or businesses, he added. Some would call them "attractive taxes." "More
tax revenues paid by outsiders would conceivably help the city," Brueckner said. "If
you don't want to spend any money, if you don't like public services, then I suppose
you wouldn't like that tax revenue."
For the full story, please visit http://articles.dailypilot.com/2010-10-26/news/tn-dpt-1026-tax-20101022_....
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