The Kendall County Commissioners Court is considering a county-wide hotel occupancy tax after business owners in the Comfort area said the tax revenue could help the town's struggling tourism industry. Advocates for the tax, many of them from the Comfort area, told commissioners court members this week that revenue generated by a county hotel occupancy tax could be spent on marketing Kendall County and Comfort to tourists.
Another battery storage project draws ire of Hill Country residents For comparison, Boerne, the only municipality entirely in Kendall County, has a hotel occupancy tax rate of 7%. The state collects a hotel occupancy tax of 6% of a room’s cost. That means guests staying in Boerne pay an effective 13% tax rate on their rooms, counting the 6% state tax.
Kerr County cleaning up after rains send Guadalupe River above flood stage Hueber proposed the county create a five-person Kendall County Visitors Center Board to oversee the hotel tax funds. The members could be unpaid volunteers, he said, addressing concerns about cost raised by some members of the court.
State OKs water quality permit for controversial quarry in Comal County “We feel like our business right now could not handle another increase passing on to our customers in the climate that we’re in,” Wellborn said. County Judge Shane Stolarczyck said he had concerns about “taxing other Texans” to help keep Comfort afloat. Hueber responded by saying Texans pay hotel taxes almost everywhere they go.