A Kentucky bill wanted to help Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life. It doesn’t

A Kentucky bill wanted to help Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life. It doesn’t – for now

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LOUISVLLE, Ky. (WDRB) — As part of a wide-ranging bill approved last week, state lawmakers aimed to make sales tax incentives available to the promoters of Louisville’s popular Bourbon & Beyond festival and similar events.
House Bill 775 includes rebates for some music festivals in Louisville and Lexington that run for at least two straight days and bring in 60,000 people. Those attractions could receive half of the Kentucky sales taxes generated on admissions, food and drink.
But contrary to public statements, Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life do not qualify for the incentives under the current version of the legislation, a WDRB News analysis has found.

That’sbecausemultidayeventsheldonstateland–liketheHighlandFestivalGroundsattheKentuckyExpositionCenter—aren’tpartofthebillthatpassedbothchambersoftheGeneralAssemblylastweekaftermorphingfromfourto147pages. Rep.JasonNemes(R-Middletown),thebill’ssponsorandHouseMajorityWhip,acknowledgedtheerroronTuesdayandsaidlawmake

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