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New Orleans seeks more of tourist tax
Posted on 12/26/18 at 3:00 pm
Posted on 12/26/18 at 3:00 pm
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Mayor LaToya Cantrell says the city of Mardi Gras fame receives barely more than 1 in 10 of each dollar collected from the taxes and fees visitors pay. The Southern tourist destination is grappling with longstanding infrastructure challenges, including potholes, drainage problems and sporadic drinking water issues.
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New Orleans' mayor says the city deserves to get a bigger percentage of the $166 million collected each year from a 15 percent surcharge on hotel rooms.
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Winning a bigger slice of the pie could be a tall political order for the new mayor - much of the money is earmarked for the Superdome and other state-owned institutions. Tourism leaders have proposed a higher hotel tax, but Cantrell says that wouldn't be enough.
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New Orleans does need to fix the roads. However, I wonder how much money would be freed up for infrastructure improvement if city officials would put a stop to nefarious spending?
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Posted on 12/26/18 at 3:01 pm to Cump11b
More money to put on her credit card...
Posted on 12/26/18 at 3:01 pm to Cump11b
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if city officials would put a stop to nefarious spending?
wait
Posted on 12/26/18 at 3:03 pm to Cump11b
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New Orleans does need to fix the roads. However, I wonder how much money would be freed up for infrastructure improvement if city officials would put a stop to nefarious spending?
Mitch could have fixed a few pumps with the money he spent taking down the statues. I guess flooding isn't as important an issue as Robert E. Lee.
Posted on 12/26/18 at 3:04 pm to Cump11b
These fricknuts are going to continue to add tax upon tax until tourists quit coming. It is not a bottomless barrel and we are already losing tons of people a month to places that have actively sought to take our tourists. Nashville for one which now gets more bachelorette parties than anywhere in the nation. NOLA used to get many of those. You know who follows bachelorette parties around? Bachelor parties and single guys. So we are going to start losing those too.
It doesn't take a PhD to understand this. Not sure why our elected officials have so much trouble with it.
It doesn't take a PhD to understand this. Not sure why our elected officials have so much trouble with it.
Posted on 12/26/18 at 3:05 pm to jbgleason
Tourism is continuing to rise year after year
What in the world are you even rambling about?
What in the world are you even rambling about?
This post was edited on 12/26/18 at 3:07 pm
Posted on 12/26/18 at 3:06 pm to Cump11b
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New Orleans' mayor says the city deserves to get a bigger percentage of the $166 million collected each year from a 15 percent surcharge on hotel rooms.
Posted on 12/26/18 at 3:14 pm to Cump11b
and hotels will continue popping up through the CBD and French Quarter.
I enjoy the country bumpkins of the OT complain about a city with a black female mayor.
I enjoy the country bumpkins of the OT complain about a city with a black female mayor.
Posted on 12/26/18 at 3:22 pm to Cump11b
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the city of Mardi Gras fame receives barely more than 1 in 10 of each dollar collected from the taxes and fees visitors pay.
A good bit of that money comes from people who will be murdered. I think the city should have to give that portion back to the families of the victims.
Posted on 12/26/18 at 3:27 pm to jbgleason
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It doesn't take a PhD to understand this. Not sure why our elected officials have so much trouble with it.
While you don't need a PhD to understand it, you seem to still have trouble
Tourism in New Orleans broke previous years records in 2017 as it continues to do each year since 2009.
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Almost 18 million visitors spent nearly $9 billion while visiting New Orleans in 2017, according to a report. The number of visitors (17.74 million) represents a 5.7 percent increase from 2016, according to D.K. Shifflet & Associates, a data collection service that New Orleans tourism organizations began using last year.
Oh yeah and
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Nashville for one which now gets more bachelorette parties than anywhere in the nation.
is Vegas actually
This post was edited on 12/26/18 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 12/26/18 at 3:29 pm to OysterPoBoy
quote:Toursists aren't the ones getting murdered. It's culcha on culcha violence.
A good bit of that money comes from people who will be murdered. I think the city should have to give that portion back to the families of the victims.
Posted on 12/26/18 at 3:46 pm to Cump11b
The city received $2 billion in FEMA funds for road repair and Mitch had spent less than 1% of it before he left office. The problem isn't the revenue, it's the people in charge of using the money.
Posted on 12/26/18 at 3:50 pm to Cump11b
frick'em let them burn!
Posted on 12/26/18 at 4:03 pm to yaboidarrell
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Toursists aren't the ones getting murdered. It's culcha on culcha violence.
Whew, thank god they aren't getting robbed or beaten on camera either.
Posted on 12/26/18 at 4:07 pm to tLSU
quote:I was coming to post this. I believe they were going to lose it unless a plan was put in motion to actually use the money. Absolutely absurd
The city received $2 billion in FEMA funds for road repair and Mitch had spent less than 1% of it before he left office. The problem isn't the revenue, it's the people in charge of using the mone
Posted on 12/26/18 at 4:10 pm to jbgleason
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These fricknuts are going to continue to add tax upon tax until tourists quit coming.
They are not asking for additional taxes, but a larger share in the revenues already collected and rightfully so. The city generates 100% of the tourism taxes collected in NOLA, yet is only given 1.5% of the monies. That number should be closer to 30% of all revenue collected.
This post was edited on 12/26/18 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 12/26/18 at 4:12 pm to touchdownjeebus
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yet is only given 1/10 of the monies
Where does the money go?
Posted on 12/26/18 at 4:14 pm to OysterPoBoy
This is one of the silliest comments I've ever seen on this board.
Posted on 12/26/18 at 4:23 pm to Cump11b
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Where does the money go?
BGR did a report on orleans parish sales taxes based on 2015.
Of the total $165.8 million...
18.4 million to the city
15.2 million to Orleans Parish Schools (collected by the system and allocated out to the charters)
5.5 million to the RTA
44.6 million to the Morial Convention Center
53.4 million to the LSED (stadiums and arenas)
16.6 million to the Convention and Visitors Bureau
11.8 million to New Orleans Tourism and Marketing Corp
400K to the New Orleans Multicultural Tourism network
Sure, cut the 400K and give that to the city. And I would say cut the Morial CC amount by a bunch - a big part of their money was supposed to be for Phase IV which ain't happening.
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