tax increase

County Supervisors approve a proposal to raise the transient occupancy tax, which is the tax visitors pay on motel, hotel, and vacation rental accommodations.

Proposal calls for asking voters to hike transient occupancy tax from 12% to 14% in unincorporated parts of county. Tourism groups oppose it.

A new one-cent sales tax increase approved by voters in the city of Santa Barbara kicked in April of 2018.That new tax appears to be having its intended…