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Dec. 24, 2016
High court says online travel companies are not hotel operators
The California Supreme Court has now ruled in favor of the group. It included such household names as Hotels.com, Priceline, Expedia, Hotwire, Travelocity, Orbitz and others. The issue in the case concerned the hotel occupancy taxes charged by San Diego. By Robert W. Wood
Robert W. Wood
Managing Partner
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Univ of Chicago Law School
Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.
Fighting tax bills is rarely easy, and that is especially true with California tax bills. For one thing, the process can be administratively difficult. In re Transient Occupancy Tax Cases, 2016 DJDAR 12218 (Dec. 12, 2016). For another, California's taxing agencies often display a take-no-prisoners attitude toward settling them. So, you may have to go to court.
If you do, though, you can win big, as a gro...
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