Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Marana Considering Raising Bed Tax---Except For Ritz-Carlton

Although we don't usually report on Marana goings on, we couldn't help but notice the town will be discussing raising its bed tax from 3% to 6%, the same as Tucson & Oro Valley.

What we found more interesting was their thought of excluding the new Ritz-Carlton Resort from this increase.

We wonder---- Does the Marana Town Council know anything about the pending Supreme Court decision on the CityNorth case?

You know---- the case the Goldwater Institute won in the lower court that stated, in essence, you can't violate the Az Constitution by giving preferential treatment to one entity and not others.

I guess Marana feels that the Ritz deserves special treatment while all their other hotel/motel properties can "suck wind."

We'll watch how this turns out.

Here's The Explorer article.
http://www.explorernews.com/articles/2009/05/20/news/doc4a133a7830e00190754455.txt

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