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Potential hotel occupancy tax evaluation for FIFA World Cup
1:26:52
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Council Member Amanda Farías inquires about potential hotel occupancy tax evaluations in anticipation of the FIFA World Cup. Andrew Kimball provides a brief response regarding EDC's involvement in such discussions.
- Farías asks if there have been discussions about evaluating hotel occupancy taxes to benefit hotels in preparation for the World Cup
- Kimball states that EDC has not been involved in these conversations or asked to study the matter
- He notes that NYC Tourism typically handles hotel-related matters
Amanda Farías
1:26:52
And just in the same vein of different tax arguments on benefits, in the past couple years I've had the city has had conversations around hotels and hoteliers and how to utilize different types of either the like hotel occupancy taxes, reducing it or using those ways to see if there could be a benefit for our hotels and bringing those workers back to work in the hotels.
1:27:24
Have we spoken with the administration at all to look at a hotel occupancy tax evaluation on whether or not that could be beneficial to the hotels in anticipation of the FIFA World Cup.
Andrew Kimball
1:27:37
I have not been in those conversations and EDC has not been asked to study that.
1:27:42
Typically as it relates to hotels, NYC tourism handles that because it's in their bailiwick.
Amanda Farías
1:27:51
Okay.
1:27:53
And I will break again for council member questions and I'd like to call on council member Bravides.