Jury awards $20M to Texas cities for online hotel booking taxes
A federal jury in San Antonio, Texas, has awarded $20 million to Texas cities after finding that online booking services such as Travelocity, Expedia and Priceline.com failed to pay proper occupancy taxes over several years. The award will be divided according to the number of hotel rooms the Web sites sold in each of the state's 170 cities, with San Antonio and Dallas expected to be the largest recipients of the award.
Dallas Morning News, The | 11/01
This story published in AH&LA SmartBrief on 11/02/2009
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