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Tax Authorities Want Atlanta's SkyView Ferris Wheel Seized To Pay Taxes
ByKelly Phillips Erb June 24, 2015

There have been some pretty crazy seizures to settle old tax bills – but a ferris wheel? That’s exactly what Escambia County Tax Collector Janet Holley is demanding. And it would be one heck of a seizure: the ferris wheel in contention is not only not in the same county, it’s in a different state….

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Corporate | State and local tax (SALT)

Travel Companies Claim Atlanta Is Out Of Luck (And They’re Not Talking About The Falcons)
ByKelly Phillips Erb September 9, 2008December 4, 2019

(Sorry, couldn’t resist the Falcons reference…) The Georgia Supreme Court is in the midst of a fairly tricky procedural debate about the way that online travel companies collect and remit taxes – and whether cities have an obligation to pursue traditional assessments for a nontraditional industry. We’ve seen a lot of debate and confusion when…

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