At the NBTA International Convention & Exposition, the National Business Travel Association (NBTA) expanded upon its leadership role in the effort to raise awareness of the negative impacts of car rental excise taxes. Since…
At the NBTA International Convention & Exposition, the National Business Travel Association (NBTA) expanded upon its leadership role in the effort to raise awareness of the negative impacts of car rental excise taxes. Since April, NBTA has been working closely with the US`s largest car rental companies and other leading travel, consumer, and tax policy organizations to address the issue. NBTA launched a web-based information hub and participated in release of a major economic research study on car-rental excise taxes.
NBTA, Cendant Car Rental Group, Inc. (Avis, Budget), Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. (Dollar Rent A Car, Thrifty Car Rental), Enterprise Rent-A-Car, The Hertz Corporation, and Vanguard Car Rental USA Inc. (National Car Rental & Alamo Rent A Car), and other partner organizations are working to educate Americans on the true negative impact of car rental excise taxes on local businesses and economies. The group`s efforts are particularly focused on corporate travel professionals, rental car customers, the business community, and elected and government officials. The group will raise awareness among those audiences that it is poor policy to tax car rentals in order to fund unrelated projects or projects that benefit a population much larger than those who rent cars.
NBTA members have provided significant positive feedback to NBTA`s recent work educating the industry, the public, and elected officials on the true effects of car rental excise taxes. In response to that member input, we are pleased to step up our efforts, including adding a staff person focused on this important issue, said NBTA Executive Director & COO, Bill Connors, CTC. These taxes hit NBTA member companies` bottom lines. Our goal is to make sure that before targeting car rentals to raise funds, local officials, citizens and businesses understand that such taxes have a negative effect on the local economy.
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