Most partners receive their funding either through legislative allocation (states) or hotel tax collections (non-state). We ask for these so we can best advise on what boundary to use for your destination!
We have learned that standardizing data across Zartico partners will give all partners the clearest, most reliable data, and this is something we do through our Place-Based Strategy.
Your Implementation Intake Form will ask you what your tax jurisdiction is in order to define the edges of your destination's boundary. But this may bring up a few questions.
What is tax jurisdiction?
A tax jurisdiction is a city, state, country, or other government that levies taxes within its limits. To put it another way; it is the government-determined area in which your destination exists that collects taxes that benefit you, such as a city, county, or state. Often times this is very simple... For example, the tax jurisdiction for a destination that represents a county, would have the tax jurisdiction of that county.
What jurisdiction(s) do you collect your tax-based funding from?
Most of our destination partners receive their funding either through legislative allocation (states) or hotel tax collections (non-state).
Why do we ask for this?
We use your tax jurisdiction to define your destination boundary. We have discovered that using the tax jurisdiction gives the most benefit to you and all Zartico partners by allowing us to use these standard data sets for benchmarking. This boundary is the first step in setting up your destination in the operating system. Another way we may refer to standard boundaries is to bring up census-designated boundaries.
What jurisdiction do I want to use?
You will want to define the outermost tax jurisdiction surrounding your destination. For example, If you are seeking to learn about an area that includes several cities, you will want to use the county tax jurisdiction.
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