{"id":13288,"date":"2015-05-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/pinellas-leaders-weigh-future-use-of-countys-tourist-tax\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:00:31","slug":"pinellas-leaders-weigh-future-use-of-countys-tourist-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/pinellas-leaders-weigh-future-use-of-countys-tourist-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinellas leaders weigh future use of county\u2019s tourist tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stop losing sleep over your tax situation. I&#039;m Darrin Mish \u2014 a tax attorney in Tampa who&#039;s spent 32 years handling exactly this kind of problem. Here&#039;s what you need to know.<\/p>\n<p>tbo.com \u2014 With the possibility of still more tourism <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/internet-sales-tax-may-be-coming\/\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"2556\">tax money coming<\/a> their way, Pinellas County commissioners held off Tuesday on deciding how to split the roughly $35 million a year it now collects.<\/p>\n<p>The county\u2019s Tourism Development Council proposed capping tourist tax money to allow no more than 40 percent to be used for capital and building projects, leaving the remainder for the council\u2019s ambitious and successful advertising and promotion campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/tbo.com\/pinellas-county\/pinellas-leaders-weigh-future-use-of-countys-tourist-tax-20150519\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pinellas leaders weigh future use of county\u2019s tourist tax<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out more <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-news\/\">IRS News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_map_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_address_compat show-address show-address-only\"><div class=\"rank-math-contact-section rank-math-contact-address\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_opening_hours_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop losing sleep over your tax situation. I&#039;m Darrin Mish \u2014 a tax attorney in Tampa who&#039;s spent 32 years handling exactly this kind of problem. Here&#039;s what you need to know. tbo.com \u2014 With the possibility of still more tourism tax money coming their way, Pinellas County commissioners held off Tuesday on deciding how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28965,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13288\/revisions\/28965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}