Short-term rental tax profile
Juneau, Alaska
14% total (5% sales tax + 9% hotel-motel tax)
Is it allowed here
Short-term rentals (under 30 days) are allowed in Juneau. Operators must obtain an Alaska Business License, register each unit with CBJ, and display the registration number. Non-compliance results in daily penalties.
What counts as a short-term rental here
Stays under 30 consecutive days
Long stays
Stays 30 or more consecutive days are exempt (no lease required to claim)
A short-term rental is defined as occupancy by the same occupant for fewer than 30 consecutive days; long-term rentals (30+ days) are exempt from both taxes.
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What the guest is charged
| Tax | Rate | Applies to | Counts as short-term | Confidence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales TaxCity & Borough of Juneau | 5% | full price including cleaning fee | fewer than 30 consecutive days | Medium | Secondary source |
| Hotel-Motel Room TaxCity & Borough of Juneau | 9% | nightly room rate only | fewer than 30 consecutive days | Medium | Secondary source |
Who actually remits it
Whoever runs the guest's card owes the tax. That is the whole rule, and it is why the same booking can be taxed differently on two platforms.
| Platform | Merchant of record | Collects | You charge | You remit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airbnb | Platform | Partially | Nothing, Airbnb collects and remits all of it | Sales Tax (5%) and Hotel Tax (9%) only where Airbnb does not remit? Actually Airbnb remits both according to help article |
| Vrbo | Partner | None | 5% sales tax on full price including cleaning fee, plus 9% hotel tax on nightly rate | Sales Tax 5%, Hotel Tax 9% |
| Booking.com | Partner | None | 5% sales tax on full price including cleaning fee, plus 9% hotel tax on nightly rate | Sales Tax 5%, Hotel Tax 9% |
| Expedia | Partner | None | 5% sales tax on full price including cleaning fee, plus 9% hotel tax on nightly rate | Sales Tax 5%, Hotel Tax 9% |
| Partner | None | 5% sales tax on full price including cleaning fee, plus 9% hotel tax on nightly rate | Sales Tax 5%, Hotel Tax 9% | |
| Whimstay | Partner | None | 5% sales tax on full price including cleaning fee, plus 9% hotel tax on nightly rate | Sales Tax 5%, Hotel Tax 9% |
| Direct | Partner | None | 5% sales tax on full price including cleaning fee, plus 9% hotel tax on nightly rate | Sales Tax 5%, Hotel Tax 9% |
On a real booking
$200 a night, 1 nights, $50 cleaning
Guest pays nightly rate plus cleaning fee. Sales tax applies to total; hotel tax applies only to nightly rate.
What you have to hold
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STR Unit Registration
Any short-term rental unit (less than 30 days)
- Issued by
- City & Borough of Juneau (via CBJ Sales Tax Office)
- Cost
- None
- Renewal
- Annual
- Lead time
- Before listing
What you file, and when
| Obligation | Frequency | Due | File with no bookings? | If you are late | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collect and remit both taxes and file quarterly | quarterly | Quarterly returns due one month after quarter end (e.g., April 30 for Q1). | YesReturn required even if no bookings, unless under $20,000 annual gross sales and you have requested annual filing. | $25 late filing fee plus 5% per month up to 25%, plus 15% annual interest. | City & Borough of Juneau Sales Tax Office |
What this page cannot see
Your HOA, condo board or neighborhood covenant
This page covers public law: what the state, county and city require. It cannot see the private rules attached to your specific property. An HOA, a condo association, a co-op board or a recorded neighborhood covenant can cap nights, require its own registration and fees, demand approval of every guest, or prohibit short-term renting outright, no matter what Juneau, Alaska allows. Those documents are not published anywhere public, so read your CC&Rs, bylaws and any lease before you take a booking. They routinely override everything above.
Sub-city districts you may sit inside
Tax can also attach below the city line. Tourism improvement and business improvement districts, resort area districts, convention and stadium districts, transit districts and community development districts are all drawn on a map, and whether you owe them depends on which side of a street you are on. They are usually a small percentage or a flat nightly amount, they are charged to the guest like any other lodging tax, and they are the layer most often missed because nobody expects a district smaller than a city to levy one.
If your address sits inside one, your county or city finance office can confirm it. Ask specifically whether any special district assessment applies to transient lodging at your parcel.
Primary sources
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Useful to a co-host, a bookkeeper, or anyone buying in Juneau, Alaska.
Corzly does not file this for you
You register, you collect, you remit, you hold the licenses. What we do is run the property so those numbers are right in the first place, on every channel, without you chasing them.
We manage short-term rentals remotely, 300+ properties across 50+ cities and 7 countries, so where the property sits makes no difference to whether we can take it on.
Talk to us about your portfolioHow to use this page. Corzly does not provide tax, legal or accounting advice, and we are not licensed tax professionals. This profile is automated research compiled from published government sources. Each figure carries a link to the source we read, so you can verify it yourself rather than take our word for it.
Tax rates, license requirements and filing rules change, and any source can be superseded without notice. Anything we could not confirm is marked Low confidence or listed under "Still to confirm" rather than guessed at. Before charging a guest, registering, or filing a return, confirm every figure directly with the taxing authority.
Registering, collecting, filing and remitting remain your responsibility. If the amounts matter to your business, and they do, take this research to a licensed tax professional or the authority itself before acting on it.
If you would rather hand the whole thing off, a service like Avalara MyLodgeTax can register, file and remit on your behalf.