Local occupancy taxes

[Becky404]

I need to understand the following-

We own a vacation rental in Surfside TX. According to Airbnb and Texas comptroller, Airbnb is collecting the 6% occupancy tax from guests on my behalf. However, when I look at gross payout information it says 0 collected occupancy taxes. I have emailed, called, etc for months with no resolution. 

I need to know how to set up my listing so that Airbnb collects and remits the 6% state and collects the local 4% and passes it through to me so that i can pay the local. I have tried adding a tax under professional hosting tools, but I only see that it collects the 4% rather than the total 10% from guests. (i tried it as a guest for my lising to see as well- only collected the added tax of 4% that I added. If i add the other 6% it comes directly to me as well, and I have to remit to the state. I want it to be easy like VRBO where they collect all 10%, submit the state 6% and pay me the other 4% for me to pay locally quarterly. 

any help is greatly appreciated! TIA!! Becky

[Marsha171]

I too am waiting to get my listing posted trying to get local tax listed and collected. I'm good with reporting it myself, but  HOW DO WE SET IT UP AND  DO IT????

[Donna1121]

Airbnb is only collecting the state taxes. It is quite frustrating.  They don't even acknowledge that Dallas has an occupancy tax so I can not charge the 7% tax I need to pay.  Has online else found a way to fix this problem for their city

[Donna1121]

We have to collect and remit local taxes ourselves.  There pal problem is that the AIRBNB system doesn't work right so depending on the city you are in, you can not set a tax rate for collecting.  I had to estimate average taxes and add that to my cleaning fee. I think the only way to resolve this is for us to all call and make complaints

[Patricia3436]

I am having this issue as well and Airbnb support does not help. I added a manual 3% tax  to cover our county lodging tax that is supposed to be remitted to us to pay since they only pay the state tax but it is not being collected and sent to us even though  have it set up that way so I do not know what they are doing. Every time I contact them they send me an article link.?! But I receive no answer!