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amusement tax

American  

noun

  1. a tax levied on such forms of entertainment as motion pictures, theater, etc., and included in the total admission price.


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People who buy tickets to events at the Camden Yards complex pay a 10 percent amusement tax.

From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2022

The city let a previous Blues owner, Dave Checketts, pledge the club’s amusement tax revenues to back the bonds that renovated the Peabody Opera House.

From Washington Times • Jan. 10, 2017

The city’s Department of Financing has ruled that these “electronically delivered amusements” are covered by the city’s existing amusement tax and personal property lease tax.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2015

Pennsylvania Common Pleas Court Judge Ellen Ceisler ruled that the city could not extend a 5 percent amusement tax to the semi-private dances, upholding a ruling by the city's Tax Review Board.

From Reuters • Jul. 16, 2014

Jeopardized were the gasoline tax, city charters, banking laws, the amusement tax, public appointments, salaries.

From Time Magazine Archive

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