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Hudson-area hoteliers urge Columbia County to exclude small outside-Hudson hotels from new short-term rental tax
Summary
Hotel owners outside the city of Hudson told supervisors the newly enacted short-term rental/occupancy tax will unfairly hurt small, family-run inns that already remit local fees and undergo inspections; they asked the board to slow implementation or exclude them from the rule.
Jennifer Ozi McDonald, owner of the Gold Dutch Inn, and other local hoteliers told the Columbia County Board of Supervisors on Dec. 11 that a recently enacted change to short-term rental/occupancy tax law should not automatically include small hotels outside the city of Hudson.
McDonald said her hotel and several nearby independent operators already charge an 8% local fee to guests and are regularly inspected. She told the board that applying an additional county change that could raise effective local charges from 8% to 12% (if combined with pending state…
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