{"id":295226,"date":"2026-05-15T23:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/295226\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T23:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:15:07","slug":"audit-finds-over-1-million-in-el-paso-hotel-occupancy-taxes-missing-across-20-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/295226\/","title":{"rendered":"Audit finds over $1 million in El Paso hotel occupancy taxes missing across 20 properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 An internal audit by the city of El Paso found widespread compliance issues among multiple hotels in El Paso and concluded that more than $1 million in hotel occupancy taxes are missing.<\/p>\n<p>The audit reviewed 20 hotels and was conducted between January 2022 through December of last year by the city\u2019s Internal Audit Department and a third-party audit company.<\/p>\n<p>According to the audit, the hotels accounting for the most missing occupancy taxes include:<\/p>\n<p>Comfort Inn and Suites near the airport, which owes more than $262,000.Holiday Inn by the airport, which owes more than $229,000.La Quinta Inn by Wyndham El Paso Cielo Vista, which owes $133,000.<\/p>\n<p>The city of El Paso will hold a meeting next week to discuss the findings.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up <\/a>to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 An internal audit by the city of El Paso found widespread compliance issues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-295226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}