County officials had offered to pay Amazon about $23 million in taxpayer dollars, expecting Arlington would see a rise in tax revenue from hotel stays.
to leave behind about 678,000 square feet of vacant space elsewhere in the area now dubbed “National Landing.”to outbid each other for the prize of 50,000 jobs and billions of dollarsIn the three fiscal years before the pandemic, the county’s hotel tax revenue — known officially as the “transient occupancy tax” — averaged about $26 million into county coffers annually. A
But from last July through June of this year, Arlington made $22.7 million from the hotel tax. That put it more than $2 million short of the baseline needed to trigger incentives to the company — and thus, meant no payments at all.
Since first renting out the space — a basement unit attached to her father-in-law’s house — she has had guests for internships, cherry blossom season, and ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery. But not for business with Amazon, which she hopes will allow her to avoid lowering her fees. The local incentives offered by the county represent a relatively small chunk of the broader subsidies package floated for Amazon’s Arlington campus. State officials committed to paying the company up to $750 million, paid in installments as the tech giant created new jobs in Virginia.
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