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Thursday, October 05, 2006

Raising Car Rental Tax to Support the Arts

The Institute for Education and the Arts is information about a plan in North Carolina to use an increase in car rental taxes to support arts projects in Mecklenburg County.

Car rental tax hike OK'd for arts plan
Charlotte Observer (NC), 9/20/2006

In North Carolina, "Mecklenburg County commissioners Tuesday [September 19] approved an increase in the car rental tax, the final major piece of a plan to build $158.5 million in arts projects expected to change the face of uptown. On Dec. 1, the car rental tax will go from 11 percent to 16 percent."

Read more at http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/15560590.htm.

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