Hotels, online sites fight over travel tax burden | washingtonpost.com

When you log on to Orbitz to find that perfect room for your next vacation, you may be thinking about the pool, or the view, or the chance to get away from it all. But the travel site you use and the hotel where you stay are thinking about something else: Who’s responsible for your taxes? Online travel providers and the hotel industry will clash next year over which side is responsible for forwarding taxes to state and local governments,...