This year, she added, MVA collected a total of $5.1 million from Finance, but the amount represents the hotel occupancy tax collections for fiscal year 2019.
MVA has yet to collect $1 million from FY 2019, Iakopo said.
The Marianas Visitors Authority board meets on Wednesday with acting chair Gloria Cavanagh presiding. Photo by Junhan B. Todino
For fiscal year 2020, the central government owes MVA $6.6 million in hotel occupancy tax collections, she added.
MVA, for its part, owes $230,000 for its offshore marketing and promotions program, and $31,000 for operations and monthly recurring costs, she said.
“With no international flights, we’ve been cutting down drastically so most of the payables are for offshore [vendors],” she said.
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