{"id":113411,"date":"2026-05-01T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/la-measure-tc-voter-guide-tax-on-hotel-bookings-by-online-companies\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:48:38","slug":"la-measure-tc-voter-guide-tax-on-hotel-bookings-by-online-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/la-measure-tc-voter-guide-tax-on-hotel-bookings-by-online-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Measure TC Voter Guide: Tax on hotel bookings by online companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-element=\"story-stack-story-body\" rich-text-module\")_=\"\" wp_automatic_readability=\"53\">p):text-cms-story-body-color-text-clearfix&#8221;> <\/p>\n<p>Hotel operators sell rooms at discounted rates to online travel companies, and the companies then charge consumers additional fees.<\/p>\n<p>By law, online companies pay taxes on the price paid for a room, but they are not required to take into account the higher price they charge consumers, said City Council member Tim McCosker, a supporter of Measure TC.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s transient occupancy tax, also known as the bed or hotel tax, is 14% of the room rate. According to city estimates, if the TC is passed, $5 million per year could be raised for sidewalk and street repairs, parks and other essential services.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[4515,2804,856,2753,10738,241,1323,2436],"class_list":{"0":"post-113411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-verse","8":"tag-bookings","9":"tag-companies","10":"tag-guide","11":"tag-hotel","12":"tag-measure","13":"tag-online","14":"tag-tax","15":"tag-voter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113414,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113411\/revisions\/113414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}