‘Bed tax’ dollars will be used to boost tourism and shore up beaches for at least another year

‘Bed tax’ dollars will be used to boost tourism and shore up beaches for at least another year

Florida’s Tourist Development Tax – the so-called “bed tax” collected from visitors who stay at hotels – will continue to provide Indian River County with almost $5 million to promote tourism and shore up its beaches for at least another year. A controversial plan to eliminate Florida’s 62 Tourist Development Councils and use tourist tax dollars to reduce property taxes failed to make it into the $117 billion state budget bill signed into law by…