Update tax-payer

[Emanuele124]

Hey,

is there a way to make sure Airbnb reports to EU authorities the right tax payer?

Long story short my family rents out grandmas place after she died. Since they're not too skilled technology wise we used my Airbnb account to set this up, while the payouts go entirely and directly to family member that does the work.

They get the money and manually report it to tax authorities. 

Still airbnb reports me yearly to tax authorities, and there's apparently no way to change this.

Any ideas?

[Mike-And-Jane0]

@Emanuele124 Does it matter? I would talk to your tax authority and explain the situation. In most jurisdictions there are strict rules as to who pays tax and I doubt if the ownership of the Airbnb account comes into it.

[Mike-And-Jane0]

@Emanuele124 But to be more helpful you could make the family member a co-host and direct 100% of the money to them. That said I don't know if you are still liable for a proportion of the tax if you own the property.

[Emanuele124]

They own the property, I don't.

They are already co-host and get the full payout.

I know I can talk about it with tax authorities but I wonder whether there's a way to make Airbnb report this correctly instead of just making wrong assumptions.