Legal Documents of Pittman Center

Code of Pittman Center

Pittman Center
Title 5 : Municipal Finance and Taxation
Chapter 3 : Hotel/Motel Tax

5-304 : Remittance to the municipality.

  1. The tax levied shall be remitted by all operators who lease, rent or charge for any rooms, lodgings, spaces or accommodations in hotels to the municipality, to be remitted not later than the twentieth (20th) day of each month next following collection from the transient. The operator is required to collect the tax from the transient at the time of the presentation of the invoice for such occupancy as may be the custom of the operator, and if credit is granted by the operator to the transient, then the obligation to the municipality entitled to such tax shall be that of the operator.
  2. For the purpose of compensating the operator in accounting for and remitting the tax levied by this chapter, the operator shall be allowed two percent (2%) of the amount of the tax due and accounted for and remitted to the municipality in the form of a deduction in submitting the report and paying the amount due by such operator, provided the amount due was not delinquent at the time of payment. (2000 Code, § 5-304)