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4 days ago · The Ballard Inn & Restaurant in Santa Ynez Valley is among the 24 hotels and motels in unincorporated Santa Barbara County that would be affected if a 2% increase in the transient occupancy tax is ...
6 days ago · The Santa Barbara City Council is considering a sales tax increase as a solution to the city’s growing deficit, currently estimated at $7 million. The proposed 1/2 percentage point sales tax increase, slated for the November election, aims to generate an additional $15.6 million annually for the city. The potential tax hike, if approved by ...
4 days ago · Santa Barbara voters will decide in November whether to increase the sales tax by a half-cent, the City Council decided Tuesday.. The council members, however, disagreed over whether housing or ...
3 days ago · As the city of Santa Barbara struggles to erase its projected $7.1 million budget deficit — a number that may actually come out closer to $10 million by the time the budget is finalized — city leadership is searching for a way to stop expenses from growing faster than revenues. That antidote may be a half-cent sales tax. If approved by City ...
3 days ago · Santa Barbara staffers are hoping to increase the city’s sales tax rate by .5% in the November election. If passed, the resolution will raise the sales tax rate in Santa Barbara from...
3 days ago · The Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT), or bed tax, is part of the fees charged at hotels and other public lodgings within the unincorporated areas of Santa Barbara County. These areas include Montecito, Summerland, the majority of Santa Ynez Valley, and areas outside of the city of Goleta.
4 days ago · ••• “The Santa Barbara City Council will decide [today] whether to place a half-cent sales tax on the November ballot. The half-cent increase would bring Santa Barbara’s sales tax to 9.25%.”
