Clarkstown Town Board Votes for 4% Hotel/Motel Occupancy Tax

Rockland Daily Staff

Clarkstown Town Board voted unanimously last week to impose a hotel/motel tax, adding an additional four percent to the bill for tourists and business travelers booking rooms in Clarkstown. 

Clarkstown has about six hundred hotel rooms combined between the Double Tree by Hilton, The Element, Days Inn by Wyndham, Hampton Inn, Quality Inn, and Hilton Garden Nanuet. It would be the first Rockland County town to impose such a tax. Presently, the legislation does not specify whether the tax will support Clarkstown tourism or go toward the general budget.

Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowski sponsored Bill A8391, which will amend New York State tax law to allow Clarkstown to levy the new tax.

“This home rule request was just passed in Clarkstown on Tuesday,” Senator Bill Weber says of Clarkstown's request that he sponsor legislation with Zerowski.  “Once we officially receive the request, we will review it accordingly.”

Supervisor George Hoehmann said during the town board meeting that he expects that the new tax could bring in “several hundred thousand to several million” dollars for Clarkstown.