TRENTON, Ga. — A Dade County official wants to discuss adding a county lodging tax that would apply to cabin rentals on Lookout Mountain.
County Executive Ted Rumley has brought up the idea with commissioners, but he said it would be several commission meetings down the road before any decisions were made.
“We’re just discussing it,” he said Monday. “We’re looking at anything that can bring additional revenue into the county.”
Dade County, like other counties in Northwest Georgia, has trimmed its budget and taken cost-saving measures to combat slumping sales tax revenues. The tax would require an amount of money be paid by visitors to the county for each night they stayed within its borders. The tax is common in the state, and Trenton already has a 5 percent lodging tax. The county tax would probably not apply inside the city, according to Mr. Rumley.
“In the state of Georgia there aren’t many counties that don’t have a hotel-motel tax,” Mr. Rumley said.