Posted on 07/02/2009 9:52:09 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
Idiots! Vacationing campers reserve in advance and when they are told the cost, Maine and Vermont start looking pretty good.
How do you put a room tax on a piece of ground? Everything else is already taxed.
Theres a reason the taxman is very unpopular.
Going camping in Vermont THIS YEAR! The White Mountains are beautiful but the Green Mountains will keep us busy and richer!
It doesn’t speak well when only “some” figured out taxes kill business.
Camping is not inexpensive if you own an RV or a travel trailer. The sites are usually $25 or more a night, not to mention gas to get there and the cost of a truck to pull the trailer. And the cost of an RV is crazy. Even tent camping is not cheap.
Next thing ya know they’ll be trying to tax the RVs parked in the Wal-Mart parking lots.
I think Chincoteague VA has 9.5% tax on campsites and there seems to be no shortage of campers. Yearly campsite rental is exempted from the tax. Perhaps an unintended good thing will be campgrounds will be able to let more yearly sites.
A few years ago there was a Robin Williams movie called Popeye. One of the character was a tax collector. It seemed every possible activity had a tax on it.
I think we are reaching that point.
The question is when will the people wake up and vote these guys (and gals) out of office.
This will in the long run reduce the amount of taxes collected. Fewer campers, fewer people shopping in the local economy, less taxes collected.
I am not an economist, but I understand the concept.
We all need to go camp on the White House lawn until Urkel is out of office!
Since it is a room tax, the state is taxing the use of the space in the privately owned vehicle because it is situated in a certain spot. One could conceive of the state attempting to tax the RV’s living space even as it moves above a state highway. Why not?
Question to ponder: When the state owns everything, what is left to tax?
For Marj and Janice, possibly.
OK !Campers stay 3 to 4 months in one place which is almost establishing residency. They use the roads, the facilities, Homeowners pay for with their property tax. Why should someone who is a resident for 4 months not pay some sort of property tax.
By the way I hate taxes too, I am just wondering why some people think they should be exempt from helping to pay for roads and other things they use when they are there.
I can understand the casual traveler not wanting to pay this tax, but if you want to live somewhere you have to contribute.
You obviously haven’t been in NH this year. There isn’t anything here but rain, rain and more rain. We are still waiting on Summer.......or Spring for that fact.
I would imagine that if you looked at the history, the room tax went up gradually over the years. Throwing in an unexpected 9% tax is a pretty stiff cost increase to impose all at once.
You can see the thinking involved. Raise the tax on visitors and out-of-staters who make up the large majority of campground users. People always prefer to tax someone else. But it will be interesting to see if it backfires on them. Tourism and out-of-state visitors is a big business in New Hampshire.
“Friendly Beaver Campground?”
Awwww! I was gonna go there this summer! Guess I’ll go to the “Not So Friendly Beaver Campground” in Vermont instead!
I used to own a motorhome. Now we tent in the woods at various places. Much more fun than an RV park. And the only money we spend is no the gas to get there. You can’t tax “free”.
Yet.
>>Why should someone who is a resident for 4 months not pay some sort of property tax.<<
They do. Just as a person who rents a home pays property taxes. It is rolled into the price.
**the increase isn’t huge**
No it’s not “huge” but that doesn’t mean a ton of “small” tax increases doesn’t add up quickly.
Nickel tax here, a dime, there, eventually you’re talking about a lot of cash!
Moron legislators across the country can’t seem to grasp this simple idea.
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