Mason Could Consider Admissions Tax for PKI

[The Interpreter]

http://www.channelcincinnati.com/news/9038322/detail.html

[Guest TombraiderTy]

That would suck if you owned a theme park and they made you do that

[CoastersRZ]

Well, you gotta love Channel 5! Admission wasn`t $37.99 last year. Maybe with a $7 discount. While I can see where they are coming from with the idea of taxing some of the people that use the parks from out of the area, it doesn`t make much sense to me. PKI has been around for more than three decades and Mason only recently has been experiencing a population explosion. Sure, PKI may be the catalyst to that, but the real issue is the lack of infrastructure due to new housing developments. They should tax those before they impose a tax on the visitors to PKI.

A 5% admissions tax on a $70 season pass would be $3.5. While not as bad as the sales tax in Ohio, it would be just another one of those extra costs. Nothing like nickeling and diming people at the park. I do believe that Cedar Point incorporates the cost of the admissions tax in their ticket price. IE, the cost of the ticket has the tax built into it, and it is not an added on to the cost of the ticket.

[flightoffear1996]

I think everyone pays enought of taxes.

[BoddaH1994]

^ I agree.

I mean hell, PKI already pays for the Kings school district.

[jzarley]

Leave it to a policitican to want to cook the golden goose...instead of just enjoying the eggs it already produces

[Captain Picard]

It sounds like it's for the road changes because of the GWL.

[The Interpreter]

^ I agree.

I mean hell, PKI already pays for the Kings school district.

Actually, PKI doesn't in reality pay taxes...the people who go there are the ones who pay. PKI merely passes along whatever taxes it has to pay.

[jzarley]

^ I agree.

I mean hell, PKI already pays for the Kings school district.

Actually, PKI doesn't in reality pay taxes...the people who go there are the ones who pay. PKI merely passes along whatever taxes it has to pay.

While they don't actually "pay" sales tax (they just hold to it for a while for the state...) But, they do pay other taxes...their percentage of payroll taxes (in addition to collecting and paying EE withholding), worker's comp, income taxes (I'm assuming they're not organized as an LLC or an S Corp), etc.

As the former owner of an "S" corp in Ohio, I'm intimately familiar with writing these checks

[The Interpreter]

And all of those taxes become part of their costs...costs that are considered and passed on when they price admissions, food, games, etc.

Again, businesses' customers are the ones who actually ultimately end up bearing any tax load...well, that and the employees. Theoretically, if employers didn't pay employment taxes, they would pay their employees more (or their CEO's).

Anyway, enough of this! My point is that if an admissions tax is passed, it will undoubtedly be passed on to the consumer.

[mullimann]

Will the Beach,Linder Family Tennis Center, and The Golf Center at Kings Island also have this tax for there guest? I think mason gets enough from the guest of KI. The park has guest that stay at hotels (including the brand new Great Wolf Lodge that will have 401 suites), see movies, eat at resturants and fill up there gas tanks ALL in the city of Mason. Will they also charge a tax for the guy who had the Wizards of Winter house in Mason??

Common.. 1% income tax for the employees in the city, which most citys also levy any subcontractors that work inside there city so its likely that the crews building NU would have paid that tax as well and probably don't know they are eligable to get 1/2 of that returned if they pay anouther city tax (likely their home city)