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Nevada Teachers Shift to Room Tax

LAS VEGAS-The agreement with three major gambling operators shifts the would-be burden away from big casino-resorts and onto tourists.

By Brian K. Miller | Updated on May 21, 2008

LAS VEGAS-Nevada teachers will stop stumping for a ballot initiative aimed at raising taxes on casinos’ gambling win to pay for higher teacher salaries and other educational improvements in exchange for support from three major casino operators for a higher room tax in its stead.

The Nevada State Education Association this week it had reached the agreement with Harrah’s Entertainment, Station Casinos, and Wynn Resorts Ltd. Included in the negotiation were key members of the legislature and the governor, according to the NSEA.

The ballot initiative would have raised the state’s tax on large casinos to 9.75% from 6.75%, a 44% increase. The compromise calls for the three casino operators to back an advisory question related to the hotel tax on this year’s ballot, and to encourage the Nevada legislature in 2009 to raise the room tax as high as 13% from its current 9%. A tax increase would require a two-thirds majority of the legislature and would raise an estimated $180 million in its first year. And with $30 billion of construction creating tens of thousands of new hotel rooms over the next few years, that figure would grow quickly.

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