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Committee reviews draft excise tax on peer-to-peer vehicle rentals; members ask for map, enforcement and coverage clarifications
Summary
Staff presented an ordinance to levy an excise tax on peer-to-peer vehicle rentals (marketplace-facilitator model) inside an adjusted downtown cruise-ship zone; members pressed staff on geofencing, the private-property exemption, which operators would be covered, and the paucity of data. The committee requested amendments, map adjustments and additional analysis.
Deputy Manager Barr introduced a draft ordinance amending Title 69 to add an excise tax on peer‑to‑peer vehicle rentals in a defined downtown cruise-ship zone, noting the proposal was modeled on other municipal excise taxes and would be collected by marketplace facilitators (he cited Turo as the primary example). Staff said the zone would be roughly within a half‑mile of cruise docks (with map adjustments after committee feedback) and that the tax could both offset downtown…
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