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HB 5483 - Hotel Tax Increase - Key Vote
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Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (88-50) - April 29, 2010 (Key vote)
Title: Hotel Tax Increase
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that increases the tax on rent received for occupancy of any room or rooms in a hotel or lodging house from 12 percent to 15 percent beginning January 1, 2011.
Highlights:
-Requires the Commissioner of Revenue Services to appropriate 20 percent of the revenue derived from the tax on rent received for occupancy of any room or rooms in a hotel or lodging house and allocate as follows (Sec. 2):
-1/3 for the municipality in which the hotel or lodging house paying the tax is located; and
-2/3 for the regional hotel tax account established by this Act, which shall be distributed by the Office of Policy and Management on a pro rata basis to regional planning organizations to promote property tax reductions through regionalism initiatives, including, but not limited to, regional economic development and educational cooperative programs and agreements.
Legislation - Introduced (House) - March 8, 2010
Title: Hotel Tax Increase
Committee Sponsors
- Finance, Revenue and Bonding (Sponsor)
Co-sponsors
- Catherine F. Abercrombie (CT - D)
- Joe Aresimowicz (CT - D)
- David Baram (CT - D)
- Theresa W. Conroy (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mary G. Fritz (CT - D)
- Henry J. Genga (CT - D)
- Maryanne 'Annie' Hornish (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Susan Johnson (CT - D)
- Christopher Brennan Lyddy (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Russell A. Morin (CT - D)
- Bruce V. Morris (CT - D)
- Richard F. 'Dick' Roy (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Peggy Sayers (CT - D)
- Peter A. Tercyak (CT - D)
- Diana S. Urban (CT - D)
- Elissa T. Wright (CT - D)
