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Recent News About Enterprise Holdings Inc.

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  Grossinger Autos says Enterprise owes more than $1 million for defamation to customers over loaner cars

  By Scott Holland | Thursday, Jan 28, 2016 @ 1:06pm

  The owners of the Grossinger group of Chicago area car dealerships has asked a Cook County judge to order one of the the nation’s leading rental car operations to pay a toll of more than $1 million for allegedly defaming the auto dealer group in telling customers not to go to Grossinger if they needed a loaner car while their cars were being serviced.

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  Appellate panel: Chicago's three-mile radius car rental tax OK as tax on 'use' not 'transaction'

  By Scott Holland | Tuesday, Sep 29, 2015 @ 4:20pm

  The city of Chicago can pull its controversial three-mile-radius car rental tax from the curb, after a state appellate panel determined the tax is a “use tax” assessed only on city residents using their rented vehicles in the city, and not an attempt to slap a transaction tax on vehicle rentals outside of city limits, which otherwise would have been an illegal extension of the city’s authority.

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