Las Vegas car rental rate and 20% tax

My actual receipt. I'm just venting, no longer are rates $12 a day (compact). And 20% tax to boot.

I usually pay more for taxes and concession fee than the car itself. I don't mind as rental prices generally are pretty cheap.

Rental car prices stayed very low for a long time during the slow recession recovery in Vegas, but have pretty much doubled over the past few years, even without the taxes and fees....

When you factor in the surcharges, it is almost 50%. Florida is almost 40%

Expect the Vegas tax to go up if the Raiders move there

I'm paying 227 for a week for an Altima sized car through Costco. That's including all fees and taxes.

Concession fee? What, did you get a tee shirt or something?

I've been checking almost daily for the last month and rental car prices are the highest I've seen in Vegas since before the 2009 collapse. I haven't paid over $200 (inc fees & taxes) for a weekly rental ever. I'm at $235 right now for a midsize...and that's with coupons.

If this is the new norm then I'm gonna start getting bus passes instead of a rental car

a Tee- Shirt Now That's FUNNY

There appears to be a bit of collusion between the rental car companies to increase charges by reducing their inventories over the last few years.

The fees and taxes added to the cost of renting a car varies widely, depending on how much a local government looks to fund local projects or raise additional revenue on the backs of people visiting the area instead of raising taxes on local residents. Las Vegas fees and taxes on car rentals are pretty high. Kansas City is the worst I've experienced...the taxes and fees are almost always equal to or higher than the actual car rental charges. Some people love voting for taxes that they don't have to pay!

It's a deeper than that. Since 2012, there has been a big consolidation in the industry that has eliminated a lot of competition. There are now 3 companies that control 90% of the car rental market.

Hertz (Hertz, Dollar, Thrifty, Firefly)
Enterprise (Enterprise, National, Alamo)
Avis (Avis, Budget, Payless).

I don't understand how this passed anti-trust muster. One force preventing even higher rental rates is consumers will switch to Uber and Lyft and forgo the car rentals altogether if the rentals get too costly.