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Article #6830Re: OUTRAGEOUS tax on car rental in Las Vegas
From: Ken Lee
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <4pkip3$ks0@cive.Stanford.EDU>, rsingh@cive.Stanford.EDU (RK Singh) writes: |> Called Hertz and Avis... their rates are about 200+-25 dollars for an |> economy car for 10 days. Sales tax: 7%, surcharge 6% and airport access |> charge 10% of the previous total... |> |> The TOTAL IS 24.3% IN TAXES!!!!! |> |> Is there any rationale for this high taxes (other than greed of the local |> authorities)? Any tips on reducing the tax burden greatly appreciated. Most communities have higher tax rates for tourists (e.g., airport fees, hotel taxes, etc.) than for locals. They get away for this because locals support it (i.e., rather than raising property taxes). This partially makes sense: governments don't want to increase taxes for residents to pay for services used mainly by tourists. The best way to combat this practice is to lobby your local government (where you have a vote) to raise taxes on residents, rather than on tourists. -- Ken Lee, kenton@rahul.net, http://www.rahul.net/kenton/index.html
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107518,1213395e8f3fd258 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-Thread: 106595,1213395e8f3fd258 X-Google-Attributes: gid106595,public From: kenton@rahul.net (Ken Lee) Subject: Re: OUTRAGEOUS tax on car rental in Las Vegas Date: 1996/06/11 Message-ID: <4pkvko$f17@murrow.corp.sgi.com> X-Deja-AN: 159694006 sender: kenton@saimin.esd.sgi.com (Ken Lee) references: <4pkip3$ks0@cive.Stanford.EDU> organization: X/Motif Consultant, http://www.rahul.net/kenton/index.html keywords: Las Vegas, Car Rental, High Taxes, TAX GOUGING!!! newsgroups: misc.consumers,ba.consumers