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One-time back payment boosts hotel-motel receipts; normalized collections remain low

Marietta City Council (work session / committee meetings) · November 25, 2025
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Summary

City finance staff reported a one-time $174,000 payment from a marketplace that failed to report hotel-motel taxes for 2021–2023, plus $10,000 in prior-month payments. After normalizing, monthly collections are at four-year lows; the committee voted to receive and file the report.

Finance staff (Speaker 5) told the committee that a marketplace operator recently provided previously unreported hotel-motel tax returns and payment for 2021–2023, producing a one-time inflow of “approximately 174,000 this month,” plus two prior-month payments totaling about $10,000.

Speaker 5 said those payments total roughly $184,000 outside the normal monthly collections and described the receipt as…

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