Revenue declining from hotel/ motel taxes

Preliminary numbers indicate the hotel/motel tax revenue will be down for the 2017-18 fiscal year.

The county collected $96,368 in 2016-17. The current fiscal year ended on June 30. The final numbers weren’t immediately available, but through June 27, Roane County Director of Accounts and Budgets Connie Aytes said $76,554.87 was collected in hotel/motel tax.

“You may want to ask the (Roane) Alliance that question,” Roane County Executive Ron Woody said, when asked why the hotel/motel revenue was trending downward.

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