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Short-term rental taxes and licenses

What you charge, who remits it, what you must hold. One page per jurisdiction, every figure sourced.

Look up a jurisdiction

Enter a ZIP code and we will fill in the city, county and state for you. If we have already researched that jurisdiction the page opens straight away, otherwise the research takes a few minutes and the page publishes itself when it is done.

Every state

Every state has a page covering the layer that applies right across it: what the state charges, whether the booking platforms collect it for you, and what you have to register. Open one, then run an address for the county, city and district layers that stack on top. A number beside a state is how many individual jurisdictions have been researched inside it.

Alabama, state layer researchedAlaska, state layer plus 1 jurisdictionArizona, state layer plus 3 jurisdictionsArkansas, state layer researchedCalifornia, state layer plus 1 jurisdictionColorado, state layer plus 2 jurisdictionsConnecticut, state layer researchedDelaware, state layer researchedDistrict of Columbia, state layer researchedFlorida, state layer plus 2 jurisdictionsGeorgia, state layer researchedHawaii, state layer researchedIdaho, state layer researchedIllinois, state layer researchedIndiana, state layer researchedIowa, state layer researchedKansas, state layer researchedKentucky, state layer researchedLouisiana, state layer researchedMaine, state layer researchedMaryland, state layer researchedMassachusetts, state layer researchedMichigan, state layer researchedMinnesota, state layer plus 1 jurisdictionMississippi, state layer researchedMissouri, state layer researchedMontana, state layer researchedNebraska, state layer researchedNevada, state layer researchedNew Hampshire, state layer researchedNew Jersey, state layer researchedNew Mexico, state layer plus 1 jurisdictionNew York, state layer plus 1 jurisdictionNorth Carolina, state layer plus 1 jurisdictionNorth Dakota, state layer researchedOhio, state layer researchedOklahoma, state layer researchedOregon, state layer researchedPennsylvania, state layer researchedRhode Island, state layer researchedSouth Carolina, state layer plus 1 jurisdictionSouth Dakota, state layer researchedTennessee, state layer plus 2 jurisdictionsTexas, state layer plus 1 jurisdictionUtah, state layer researchedVermont, state layer researchedVirginia, state layer researchedWashington, state layer researchedWest Virginia, state layer researchedWisconsin, state layer plus 1 jurisdictionWyoming, state layer researched
3 Reports already run in that state. Open it to read them. Every state has a page, whether or not an address has been run yet.

Recently researched

Showing the 12 most recent of 18. Open a state above for everything researched inside it.

Questions about these profiles

What does each tax profile include?

The lodging, sales and occupancy taxes that apply to a short-term rental in that city, county and state, which booking platforms remit them for you, the licenses and permits you must hold, and the filing and renewal calendar. Every rate is sourced to the government page it came from.

Do Airbnb and Vrbo pay these taxes for me?

In many jurisdictions they collect and remit some or all lodging taxes on their bookings. Booking.com, Expedia, Google and direct bookings usually do not, so the owner collects and files those. Each profile says which is which for that location.

How is a profile researched?

A research run pulls the published rates and rules from state, county and city sources, then a validator checks every figure in code: unsourced rates are downgraded, a rate not from a government or municipal-code source is flagged, and a profile that cannot confirm its core rates stays out of search results until it can.

Is this tax advice?

No. These are automated research profiles compiled from published government sources and checked in code, meant to tell you what to configure and what to ask a professional. Confirm anything you file with a tax professional or the jurisdiction itself.

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