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, Judge Garcia held that the defendant companies are obligated under the cities' hotel tax ordinances to collect and pay hotel occupancy taxes on the total amount that hotel guests pay for rooms. Contrary to this requirement, the online travel companies have remitted taxes on the lower "wholesale" rate that they pay hotels for the right to sell rooms rather than the higher "retail" rate that online travel companies charge hotel guests. As a result of this practice, the court found that "virtually every transaction resulted in underpayment of the hotel occupancy tax."In addition to affirming the jury's award of almost in actual damages through the date of trial, Judge Garcia also found that the cities were entitled to additional actual damages that have continued to accrue since the 2009 verdict, plus penalties and interest. The court also ordered that the online travel companies must devise a system within six months from the date a judgment is entered in order to report the amount of hotel occupancy taxes that are paid to individual cities in the future.
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