Resolution 77-15502 RESOLUTION NO. 77-15502
A RESOLUTION PETITIONING STATE LEGISLATURE TO
ENACT HOUSE BILL NO. 230 EXEMPTING SUBLEASES
OF CITY OF MIAMI BEACH CONVENTION CENTER
LESSEES FROM STATE SALES TAX.
WHEREAS, the City of Miami Beach, in its proprietary
capacity, owns and operates the City of Miami Beach Convention
Center Complex, which is one of the Nation' s outstanding conven-
tion hall facilities and is an asset of incalculable value to the
entire State of Florida, and
WHEREAS, numerous cities throughout the Nation also have
convention hall facilities which are in direct competition with
the said convention facilities owned and operated by the City of
Miami Beach, and
WHEREAS, prospective conventions, public or trade shows,
have expressed vigorous and continued objection to the imposition
of a Florida State Sales Tax upon proposed subleases entered into
by them and have threatened not to come or to return to the City
of Miami Beach because of the imposition of said State Sales Tax;
said sublessees conducting display booths, and other facilities
being an essential and integral part of the main leases, and
WHEREAS, the return to the State of Florida by the
imposition of said sales tax on said subleases is infinitesimal
compared to the enormous loss which will result not only to the
City of Miami Beach but the entire State of Florida if said poten-
tial lessees of this City' s Convention Center facilities refuse to
come to Miami Beach because of the imposition of said onerous
sales tax upon subleases;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF
THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that the Legislature of the
State of Florida be and it is respectfully but firmly petitioned
to address itself immediately and forthwith to the ensuant grave
problem confronting this City because of said onerous and destruc-
tive sales tax on convention hall facilities ' subleases and to
enact House Bill No. 230 forthwith exempting said sublessees and
subleases from said State Sales Tax;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that copies of this Resolution be
transmitted immediately to the Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives, the President of the Senate, the Dade Delegation, and to
members of the Senate and House Finance and Taxation Committee and
Appropriations Committee.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 21st day of December, 1977 .
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Mayor
Attest:
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City Clerk
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY-1700 CONVENTION CENTER DRIVE -MIAMI BEACH,FLORIDA 33139
ORIGINAL
RESOLUTION NO. 7$-15502
(Petitioning State Legislature to enact -
House Bill No.230,exempting subleases of
CMB Convention Ctr. lessees from State
Sales Tax)
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