The new 7 percent tax means a ticket that was $30 would increase to $32. Some box offices will sell tickets at a base price plus tax and other plan to wrap the cost into the total ticket price, said John Ellis, managing director of the Diana Wortham Theatre in Asheville.
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Not sure how this relates to movie ticket prices as such. Last I knew movie tickets weren’t $30 and the Diana Wortham wasn’t a movie theater.