You can?t make some of this stuff up. Little Camden County, in Northeastern North Carolina, has endorsed a new occupancy tax on hotel and motel rooms. County commissioners voted for the idea Monday but it must still be officially enacted by the state legislature as a local bill since authority to impose the tax doesn’t yet exist.
But here’s the kicker: Camden County has no hotels or motels. So why did commissioners vote to seek an occupancy tax?
?We put it in place for down the road,? said Board of Commissioners Chairman Jeff Jennings. ?There?s no particular reason for doing it; all the other counties have one.?
Showing a bit more sense than their elected representatives, no Camden County residents showed up at the commissioners? meeting to speak for or against the theoretical occupancy tax on a nonexistent industry.
