Lyndhurst is suing travel websites for its local hotel tax
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008” Lyndhurst has filed a federal lawsuit against a handful of travel websites such as Priceline, Travelocity and Expedia” To read the article : click HERE
After I read this article I sent this message to the Star-Ledger Staff who wrote the article:
Your article is one of the few that shows how taxpayers are being cheated by corporations.
I have some comments I would like to share.
Why are online travel sites so difficult to sue (and win a case) even for towns?
What is doing the IRS? Aren’t they powerful enough to put Al Capone in jail but why they are doing nothing now?
In 2005, EXPEDIA tried to scam me. You can read my case at: http://www.victimsofexpedia.com/mycase.htm and also read hundred of other cases at http://www.expedianews.com
I found that most people that work for the media (newspapers, TV) are reluctant to investigate and report the scam perpetrated by online travesl sites.
I have three hypothesis for that:
1) They are afraid of being sued
2) They are under EXPEDIA (and/or other online travel site) payroll
3) They don’t want to loose EXPEDIA’s money that come from advertising
The overal result is that people are being scammed by online travel sites and the people that have some power to stop them are doing nothing.
Just some thoughts.
Kind Regards
John
