TAX MAN: You want to raise the TAT by HOW much?

TAX MAN: You want to raise the TAT by HOW much?

We are past the halfway point in our current legislative session, and there are still plenty of bills to watch out for. Two of them that are still alive propose a rate change in the Transient Accommodations Tax, or TAT. I say “change” rather than “hike” because the bills replace the current 10.25 percent tax rate with a blank, so we technically can’t tell whether they propose to increase or decrease the tax. These bills are House Bill 504 and Se…