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 A use tax is assessed on every transient hotel or motel room "sold" in Michigan. As expected, Michigan lodging establishments experience higher occupancy rates during the peak summer vacation months, which are obvious in the data collected by the Michigan Department of Treasury. The last three months of 2001 experienced declines in tax collections likely due to the aftershocks of the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
The use tax collections in January 2002, the latest month for which data are available, are slightly lower than for the same month last year, but right on track with January 2000.
The statewide use taxes collected by Michigan hotels and motels were slightly lower in February and March 2002 than during the same months in the previous two years.
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