Tax hikes urged for UNLV stadium
A UNLV stadium board member, Regent James Dean Leavitt, said he will tell his fellow board members at Wednesday’s panel meeting that the Clark County sales tax and the room tax should be increased slightly to pay for an on-campus domed stadium.
Leavitt said University of Nevada, Las Vegas students should also pay a suggested $100 a year toward a “perpetual fund” for major projects such as a campus stadium or medical school.
Before the noon meeting, Leavitt told the Review-Journal that the sales tax should be increased slightly because everyone pays it in the county.
And the room tax should increase slightly because the Las Vegas resort and hotel-casino industry will financially benefit from the increased tourism that will be created by a new UNLV stadium.
“This facility will directly benefit UNLV, the resort industry, Clark County residents and the state of Nevada,” Leavitt wrote in a letter to his fellow board members.
”It benefits the resort industry by creating an asset that through event programming will bring tourists to Las Vegas from all over the world throughout each month of the year,” wrote Leavitt, a lawyer with an office in Las Vegas.
Leavitt said he will bring up his stadium tax proposal during Wednesday’s stadium board meeting.
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