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All hotels and motels in Berks County must begin collecting a 5 percent room tax starting Oct. 1.
The county commissioners in a 2-1 vote Thursday extended the tax to facilities beyond the 15-mile radius of the Sovereign Center established when the tax went into effect March 1, 1997.
The tax currently produces about $1.7 million annually, with 80 percent going to the Berks County Convention Center Authority to repay money borrowed to build the center and 20 percent going to the Greater Reading Convention & Visitors Bureau.
The expansion is expected to bring in an additional $310,000 in 2014.
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