WASHINGTON—This week, members of the American Lodge & Lodging Affiliation (AHLA) traveled from throughout the nation to fulfill with congressional leaders and talk about legislative priorities important for the hospitality sector. In the course of the ongoing Price range Reconciliation and tax negotiations, greater than 250 AHLA members held conferences with lawmakers throughout the U.S. Senate and Home of Representatives.
“AHLA members flooded Congressional workplaces this week to share their on-the-ground insights and advocate for laws to bolster the lodge business,” mentioned Rosanna Maietta, AHLA president and CEO. “Over the course of our conferences throughout the Home and Senate, we efficiently conveyed the implications of tax, commerce, and labor insurance policies lawmakers are contemplating. It’s clear {that a} sturdy tourism sector is on the radar of each Congress and the Administration.”
AHLA members shared key issues and vital challenges dealing with the U.S. hospitality business, together with the implications of tax and commerce insurance policies on lodge working prices and journey demand.
Legislative priorities important to assuaging these pressures and defending America’s small enterprise hoteliers, jobs, and financial development embrace a number of tax provisions within the Home Methods & Means Committee’s tax portion of the Price range Reconciliation invoice. These embrace making the Small Enterprise Tax Deduction everlasting, extending Bonus Depreciation, preserving the Like-Variety Alternate, reinstating Expanded Enterprise Curiosity Deductibility, launching a second spherical of Alternative Zones, and “No Tax on Ideas” to assist 1000’s of lodge staff hold extra of their hard-earned earnings.
AHLA members additionally mentioned measures to broaden and upskill the hospitality workforce, resembling adjusting the H-2B visa program cap and defending the franchise mannequin, which helps over half of all U.S. lodges and a pair of.8 million jobs.
