What about Prop A?

[lifelongMOgal]

Originally Posted by cp1969

That tourist are transient makes no difference because there is a steady stream of them. Tourism, in and of itself, is supposed to make cities money, is it not, from the purchases made by the tourists? .....

If those purchases are among those targeted by the tourism tax specifically, yes. Again, those purchases are hotel rooms, rental cars, and resturants (meals/drinks).

If the municipalites on the KS side wish to enact a similar e-tax that is indeed their perogative, however, like the KCMO earnings tax it targets all who live and work there, not just out of staters.

As an independent contractor working both sides of the state line I already had to file/pay income tax in both states, Kansas and Missouri, subject to how much I earned in each.

[cp1969]

The sales taxes tourists pay on anything they purchase, whether tourist-tax-targeted or not, benefits the city just like when a resident buys something. The money they spend at businesses increases those businesses' income and they, in turn, pay more taxes.

[lifelongMOgal]

Originally Posted by cp1969

The sales taxes tourists pay on anything they purchase, whether tourist-tax-targeted or not, benefits the city just like when a resident buys something. The money they spend at businesses increases those businesses' income and they, in turn, pay more taxes.

I didn't realize I had to state the obvious. YMMV

[cp1969]

Neither did I.

Tourism brings in money with or without those stupid, tourist-targeted taxes.

I took this

If those purchases are among those targeted by the tourism tax specifically, yes. Again, those purchases are hotel rooms, rental cars, and resturants (meals/drinks).

to mean exactly what it says, which would appear to exclude everything except the aforementioned items.

[lifelongMOgal]

cp1969, I'll try to type more slowly for you the next time.

[cp1969]

Ok, thanks.