June 24, 2005
"Businesses that aren't headquartered within the same city or district as a publicly financed stadium have been taxed in other stadium deals, said William Ahern, a spokesman for the Tax Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Washington that researches tax issues.
"'Any physical presence within that district is enough for them to say there is sufficient cause to include them in the tax,' Ahern said. 'It's not really unusual for these type of deals. Ideally, you get the people who own the stadium to pay for that, but that is apparently an old-fashioned notion.'"