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Nation's Restaurant News, August 30, 1993
AURORA, Colo. -- The City Council here in early August voted against higher sales tax on restaurants after giving preliminary approval to the measure in July.
The council voted 8-2 to eliminate the additional restaurant tax, which would have been 0.25 percent higher than the sales tax on other goods sold in the city.
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Aurora restaurateurs and the Colorado Restaurant Association had said the higher restaurant tax was discriminatory and based on a fallacy that eating out is a luxury.
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