COLUMBUS — Hope officials are trying to figure out how to apply for some of the roughly $1 million that annually is being generated through the Bartholomew County innkeeper’s tax.
So far, all of the revenues from that tax, which collects 5 percent of the cost of hotel stays in the county of less than 30 days, have gone to the Columbus Visitors Center.
Since 2003, the tax has generated more than $7 million. In the last three years, the tax generated just over $3 million.
In 2009, salaries, wages and employee benefits accounted for about 43 percent of the visitors center’s budget, while printing and advertising, as the second-largest expense, came in at 13 percent.
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