{"id":1018,"date":"2018-05-01T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/05\/01\/4-reasons-to-allow-cities-to-tax-ride-share-in-the-lone-star-state\/"},"modified":"2018-05-01T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T22:46:00","slug":"4-reasons-to-allow-cities-to-tax-ride-share-in-the-lone-star-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/4-reasons-to-allow-cities-to-tax-ride-share-in-the-lone-star-state\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Reasons to Allow Cities to tax Ride Share in the Lone Star State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background:\u00a0<\/strong>HB 100 (TX | 2017) establishing ride share laws does not permit local taxation of ride share<\/p>\n<p><strong>4 Supporting arguments for local taxation of ride share:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Texas cities are losing out on millions in tax revenue occuring within their boundaries<\/li>\n<li>Other cities are doing it<\/li>\n<li>Cities are utilizing the revenue to improve transportation and safety<\/li>\n<li>Other states have allowed cities to tax ride share to cover the\u00a0cost of street maintenance, vehicle traffic, and registering drivers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therivardreport.com\/texas-cities-losing-out-on-tax-revenue-from-sharing-economy\/\">Rivard Report |\u00a0Texas Cities Losing Out on Tax Revenue from Sharing Economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background:\u00a0<\/strong>HB 100 (TX | 2017) establishing ride share laws does not permit local taxation of ride share<\/p>\n<p><strong>4 Supporting arguments for local taxation of ride share:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Texas cities are losing out on millions in tax revenue occuring within their boundaries<\/li>\n<li>Other cities are doing it<\/li>\n<li>Cities are utilizing the revenue to improve transportation and safety<\/li>\n<li>Other states have allowed cities to tax ride share to cover the\u00a0cost of street maintenance, vehicle traffic, and registering drivers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therivardreport.com\/texas-cities-losing-out-on-tax-revenue-from-sharing-economy\/\">Rivard\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,51,10,30,7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-2019-issue","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-ride-share","category-sharing-economy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}