@Linda108 @Lori2581
Ok I looked it up.
Go to your hosting portal on your desktop computer. Not available on app.
Click on your listing. Edit
Click on the "pricing and availability" tab
Scroll down to "Taxes". Click on " Edit".
Click on "add a tax"
Here you can set the tax rate and how it's applied to the booking - per person, per night, percentage of booking, etc. However your tourist tax system is arranged.
The only problem with it is that you can't set a different rate on a seasonal basis. In Mallorca, we have two different tourist tax rates for summer and winter, so it doesn't work correctly for that, but we have two different listings, one for summer, one for winter, so I've adjusted it on each listing accordingly.
In any case, once you've set it up, it gets collected at booking time, and is not charged commission. It shows up on your booking statement as "property use taxes". In your payout summary, it is listed as "Pass through".
It's been very helpful. It was always a problem collecting it manually. Some guests weren't aware of it (or pretended not to have seen that part) and can get a bit snarky about it. This solves that problem.
I hope that helps.