Dan Touhy reports that extending the Rooms and Meals Tax to campgrounds is meeting opposition at the State House:
The state budget leaves few happy campers.
The $11.6 billion plan, which the Legislature may finalize Wednesday, imposes the meals and rooms tax on campsites for the first time. It also increases the tax rate from 8 percent to 9 percent.
Campers and campground owners rallied today at the State House against the tax, which was quietly added to the budget last week.
"Nobody comes and makes our bed. We make our own," said Emily Laplante, a retiree from Jacob Brook Campground in Orford. "Nobody cooks our meals."
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