Does the hotel owner pay your 5 or 10% occupancy tax ?
When you buy gasoline - does the station pay the tax bill for you ?
When you buy a box of shotgun shells - does the store pay your sales tax ?
Maybe your dad does, but these hotels and stores do not - the customer pays.
Lets think outside the box. Sure you can work to limit the number of guides and/or the land they lease. Reality screams that those already in business will continue on. Why not pull some extra $ for PLOT land off their client base.
The people and corporations that use these outfitters are more capable of spending this extra money relative to NR freelance hunters (wealthy guide using residents too).
Sooo Again:
Do you really think that this tax would be paid by the outfitter. The way this would work is the outfitter would add the tax to the client's bill. Those NR or (residents for that matter) that hunt with an outfitter pay more to the state than the freelancer. If you still do not get it here:
Four days hunting ($250/day) = $1,000
10% outifitter tax = $ 100
Total Bill = = $1,100
Guide still gets his money. :******: States gets a nice income too.
Also
1) Taxation is rarely equal (the word fair is a debate in itself). The Feds tax your first 40K income at 15% and it goes to 28% after that. So taxation is not even from an income tax perspective.
2) Most states have some sort of homestead exemption. You live in the home you own you pay less than the guy who has rental property. In some states the first 50K or 100K of your property value is taxed at a lower rate or tax exempt. Those that own more property or higher value property or commercial property often (not always) pay greater taxes.
When you buy gasoline - does the station pay the tax bill for you ?
When you buy a box of shotgun shells - does the store pay your sales tax ?
Maybe your dad does, but these hotels and stores do not - the customer pays.
Lets think outside the box. Sure you can work to limit the number of guides and/or the land they lease. Reality screams that those already in business will continue on. Why not pull some extra $ for PLOT land off their client base.
The people and corporations that use these outfitters are more capable of spending this extra money relative to NR freelance hunters (wealthy guide using residents too).
Sooo Again:
Do you really think that this tax would be paid by the outfitter. The way this would work is the outfitter would add the tax to the client's bill. Those NR or (residents for that matter) that hunt with an outfitter pay more to the state than the freelancer. If you still do not get it here:
Four days hunting ($250/day) = $1,000
10% outifitter tax = $ 100
Total Bill = = $1,100
Guide still gets his money. :******: States gets a nice income too.
Also
1) Taxation is rarely equal (the word fair is a debate in itself). The Feds tax your first 40K income at 15% and it goes to 28% after that. So taxation is not even from an income tax perspective.
2) Most states have some sort of homestead exemption. You live in the home you own you pay less than the guy who has rental property. In some states the first 50K or 100K of your property value is taxed at a lower rate or tax exempt. Those that own more property or higher value property or commercial property often (not always) pay greater taxes.
