DOR: Hotel, meal, beverage tax collections rise in September, fiscal YTD

LOCAL 1 percent hotel, and meal and beverage tax collections climbed over the year and on a fiscal year basis in September, the state Department of Revenue said. / COURTESY R.I. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
LOCAL 1 percent hotel, and meal and beverage tax collections climbed over the year and on a fiscal year basis in September, the state Department of Revenue said. / COURTESY R.I. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE

PROVIDENCE – Local 1 percent hotel, and meal and beverage tax collections climbed over the year and on a fiscal year basis in September, the state Department of Revenue said Wednesday.
Hotel tax collections increased 16.4 percent, to $471,157 from $404,825 a year ago. Comparing the first three months of the fiscal year to the same period in 2014, collections grew 14.6 percent, to $1,554,194 from $1,355,698 a year ago, the state agency said.
Acting Director of Revenue David M. Sullivan said September’s collections were “much stronger” compared with September 2014, “an impressive result.” The local 1 percent hotel tax is collected on the rental of rooms in the state and remitted, in full, to the municipality in which the room rental was located.
Meal and beverage tax collections rose 7 percent, to $2.2 million in September, compared with $2 million in September 2014. On a fiscal year-to-date basis, collections also increased 7 percent, to $7.4 million, compared with $6.9 million during the same fiscal year period a year ago.
Sullivan called year-over-year growth in local 1 percent meal and beverage tax collections “strong,” but noted it was below the 9.5 percent year-over-year increase recorded in September 2014.
Like the local 1 percent hotel tax, the local 1 percent meal and beverage tax is collected on the sale of a meal and/or beverage prepared away from home and the amount is remitted, in full, to the municipality in which it was consumed.

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