A federal judge in Rome is allowing more than 259 Georgia counties and municipalities to band together as a class in a six-year quest to collect millions of dollars in hotel taxes from more than a dozen online travel companies.

The suit centers on claims that online travel companies, which sell hotel rooms at discounted prices, routinely have shorted the state’s local governments of hotel taxes that they have billed, and collected from, their online customers.

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