{"id":8918,"date":"2010-08-05T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/chicago-charges-travelers-with-most-taxes\/"},"modified":"2010-08-05T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T10:35:00","slug":"chicago-charges-travelers-with-most-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/chicago-charges-travelers-with-most-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Charges Travelers with Most Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp; \n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<strong>The Windy City charges travelers the most in taxes<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn an average three-day domestic trip, travelers pay up to $101 in sales, hotel, rental car and other extra taxes aimed at them, a study presented on Thursday from a business travel group says.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe report, commissioned by the National Business Travel Association, claims travelers pay not only local sales taxes and goods and services when visiting a U.S. city, but also 144% more each day they rent a car, stay at hotel and eat out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe report studied 50 U.S. cities with the most air passengers. It discovered that a typical business traveler pays $101.27 in taxes on average for hotel, car rental and meals during a three-day, two-night stay in Chicago, more than any other city.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA traveler pays the minimum amount of taxes, $52.49 &ndash; in Portland, Oregon.&nbsp; Other cities with taxes under $55 for a three-day, four-night stay include Fort Lauderdale and Fort Myers, Florida, Honolulu and Detroit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/travel\/2010-08-05-traveltaxes05_ST_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> USA TODAY <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Windy City charges travelers the most in taxes &nbsp; On an average three-day domestic trip, travelers pay up to $101 in sales, hotel, rental car and other extra taxes aimed at them, a study presented on Thursday from a business travel group says. &nbsp; The report, commissioned by the National Business Travel Association, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}