Caesars Entertainment won a huge battle by persuading a state judge that a referendum on raising Strip sales taxes for a new arena is legal, but other factors still may bring the project to a screeching halt. The issue: Caesars and the Arena Initiative Committee want to see the sales tax on the the Strip […]
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Casinos file suit to block new Vegas arena
MGM Grand and Boyd Enterprises, behind the shield of Taxpayers for the Protection of Nevada Jobs, have filed suit against a citizens group seeking to build a new Las Vegas arena behind Harrah’s, funded with a 0.9 percent hike in the Strip’s sales tax — and there’s some merit to their arguments, if third parties can […]
Nevada Legislature to consider arena sales tax
Proponents of a nine-tenths-of-a-cent sales tax to fund a new arena behind Imperial Palace, just off the Strip, garnered enough signatures in Nevada’s three congressional districts to force the Nevada Legislature to take up the proposal in the upcoming session. The sales tax would be implemented in the general vicinity of the Strip, mostly impacting […]
