PROVIDENCE – Collections of the local 1% hotel, meal and beverage taxes declined a combined 17% year over year in September, to $2.8 million, the R.I. Department of Revenue said on Monday.
Meal and beverage tax collections declined 15%, to $2.4 million. Year over year, Providence, Warwick and Newport saw the biggest declines, collecting $136,244, $67,017 and $57,631 less respectively. Cranston saw the biggest gain, collecting $176,508, a gain of $11,322, or 7%.
The 1% hotel tax collected $374,470 in September, down $174,716, or 32%, from the same month in 2019. Providence, Newport and Warwick saw the biggest declines, losing $66,492, $31,785 and $30,691 respectively.
New Shoreham saw the biggest year over year gain, collecting $39,475, up $13,917, or 54.5%.
