{"id":610660,"date":"2026-04-28T05:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610660\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T05:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:31:11","slug":"investigation-launched-into-blended-sales-tax-charged-by-vail-resorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610660\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation launched into &#8216;blended sales tax&#8217; charged by Vail Resorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGov. Kelly Ayotte is announcing an investigation by the attorney general into the Epic Pass sold by Vail Resorts in New Hampshire, looking into whether the world&#8217;s largest operator of winter resorts is effectively collecting a sales tax in New Hampshire.Vail Resorts operates Wildcat Mountain, Attitash and Crotched Mountain, along with Mount Sunapee through a lease agreement with the state.The governor&#8217;s office said that in March, the company disclosed it would begin charging a &#8220;blended sales tax&#8221; of 3.2% on all multi-resort Epic Passes across the country, which would apparently include those sold in New Hampshire.&#8221;New Hampshire is proud to have no sales tax, and we&#8217;re not going to let an out-of-state company try to sneak one in,&#8221; Ayotte said. &#8220;The attorney general will thoroughly investigate Vail Resorts&#8217; attempt to charge a sales tax on Granite State skiers.&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tCONCORD, N.H. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kelly Ayotte is announcing an investigation by the attorney general into the Epic Pass sold by Vail Resorts in New Hampshire, looking into whether the world&#8217;s largest operator of winter resorts is effectively collecting a sales tax in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Vail Resorts operates Wildcat Mountain, Attitash and Crotched Mountain, along with Mount Sunapee through a lease agreement with the state.<\/p>\n<p>The governor&#8217;s office said that in March, the company disclosed it would begin charging a &#8220;blended sales tax&#8221; of 3.2% on all multi-resort Epic Passes across the country, which would apparently include those sold in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New Hampshire is proud to have no sales tax, and we&#8217;re not going to let an out-of-state company try to sneak one in,&#8221; Ayotte said. &#8220;The attorney general will thoroughly investigate Vail Resorts&#8217; attempt to charge a sales tax on Granite State skiers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kelly Ayotte is announcing an investigation by the attorney general into the Epic Pass sold by Vail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[265245,16676,224127,265244,4,450,3426,265247,24800,451,6270,103147,265248,172721,2804,3,16178,23742,54638,452,453,112031,265246,4477],"class_list":["post-610660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-attitash","tag-attorney-general","tag-ayotte","tag-blended-sale-tax","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-company","tag-crotched-mountain","tag-governor","tag-headlines","tag-investigation","tag-kelly-ayotte","tag-large-operator","tag-lease-agreement","tag-new-hampshire","tag-news","tag-office","tag-sales-tax","tag-skiing","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-vail-resorts","tag-wildcat-mountain","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}