Meeting Public Comments

Subcommittee meeting and times are as follows:

A bill for an act exempting from the state sales and use tax the sales price of lodging supplies sold to a lodging provider.

Subcommittee members: Johnson, C.-CH, Hermanson, Wichtendahl

Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Time: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Location: House Lounge

Names and comments are public records. Remaining information is considered a confidential record.

Comments Submitted:

03-10-2025

Lowell Scott [Airport Holiday Inn & Conference Center]

Thank you for this opportunity to respectfully ask that you support this bill, HF 419. It simply asks that the playing field be leveled, as it has previously been done for most industries. The bill clarifies that essential lodging supplies such as toiletries, towels, sheets, bottled water, and cleaning supplies, i.e. "inputs" used by hotel guests should not be taxed when sold to lodging providers. It corrects an imbalance that has unfairly impacted the hotel industry for years. Guests expect these supplies to be in any guest room they rent, they are not simply optional amenities. They are part of the product, upon which we as operators collect sales tax on the total price of the room for the state. It is unfair that we also must pay sales tax on inputs such as soap.Thank you for your consideration and please support this bill.

03-11-2025

Atul Patel [Open door hospitality ]

Double taxation is a high issue with our lodging industry in iowa. Lodging businesses collectively are getting double taxed on consumed hotel goods that we end up in paying. This savings on taxes we are in dire needs to use and help sustain our lodging operations as well as withstand increase cost of operationsAll other industries like restaurants already have this in place and do appreciate help stopping this double taxation for lodging industry