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They think I need a permit from the city whose name is part of our address, but the address is outside of the city and it has...
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I see that this topic has been talked about but I'm not finding a good answer.
I'm in Tyler, Texas with one property. The HOT (hotel occupancy tax) that AirBnB collects is a STATE tax that is sent to the State of Texas. There is a LOCAL 9% HOT that is not collected and thus not remitted to the city.
I'd LOVE to know if there is a way to auto-add this to a reservation so the guest can see it. I'm then HOPING it would be reported in the CSV we can download so I can report and remit the 9% to the city without a ton of spreadsheet gyrations.
Anyone else have experience with this?
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@Phil3896 You are able to add the local 9% tax using the custom tax section of your listing. That will then show and collect the tax from your guests.
However, without a tax agreement between AirBnB and your city tax department, the collected city tax will be sent to you as part of the guest payment ( less the state tax ) and you will have to file and pay the tax according to you city regulations .
How AirBnB will codify this tax on the csv that they offer is questionable. I doubt that there will be an easy to use breakdown. You may need to calculate what is being collected per rental yourself.
Thanks, Paula! I will reach out to Phil that way
Hi Phil!
I've contacted support and they said that I have to fully do custom.
How did you add to the 6% that they remit for you? Right now I have it set up where it's lumped together. Id appreciate your help! I'm in the city of Austin so there is an additional 11%.
Hi @Phil3896! We are going through this with the city of Dallas. Will you please advise on who to contact to hopefully get the back taxes forgiven? 🙏🏻
So sorry for the delay. I was out of the country.
My contact was just for the City of Tyler. Sorry I don't have any contact for Dallas. Tyler uses a service to administer the management of HOT collections for folks like us. I know it's obvious but you might ask CoD who they use to admin their taxes and start there....
I’m glad you asked this question because I was thinking the same exact thing!
Will be leaving the AirBnb platform for rentals for the very reason that in Angelina County , Texas, Airbnb does not collect the 7% Occupancy tax for me. For Airbnb to do so, I must check the box for them to collect all taxes , but then I must remit all of the money to the state and local offices.
This is way too much trouble when VRBO collects all taxes for me.
Yes, I ran into the same issue with Cameron County Texas. Apparently, the county has not set up the ability with Airbnb for Hosts to add a Custom Tax. The only option is default to ALL Taxes to be collected and paid to Host (including the Texas State Occupancy Tax of 6%). This means Airbnb would collect both State and Local taxes and pay the Host, who in turn is responsible for paying both the state and the county...what a pain. Its strange because several other listings I work with in different states DO have the option to add a custom tax on Airbnb. I have Pro Tools turned on, and the other listings have the Add a Tax field, but not in Texas?
I found this out when creating the listing on Vrbo and seeing they DO offer the option to collect the county tax in Texas? Why can't Airbnb do the same?