Dear Hosts,
FYI
Dear AirBnb Support,
I wish to escalate this issue as High as I can go at AirBNB. I do not wish for your "standard cut and past response" to use resolution center.
As host, we ask you please change your position on providing us a line item payable to hosts for the hosts to be able to collect and remit their taxes as required by law.
It is Canadian Federal and Provicial law that your hosts collect these taxes and remit monthly.
AirBnB informed us that AirBNB collects and remits the occupancy tax on behalf of hosts in areas wherein you were forced to have an agreement with the authorities.
We are not discussing the Occupancy Taxes AirBNB must remit on our behalf. We are discussing taxes HOSTS are legally obliged to collect and remit.
AirBNB informed us that any other tax needs to be collected by us hosts through "Resolution Center", and for hosts to mention any additional tax requirement under the listing description so the guests are aware extra fees/tax before booking the reservation. Using Resolution Center for every reservation is untenable. Smart Pricing makes every reservation billing different from the last. Hosts have to manually calculate ammounts, and valuable spend time in resultion center and in the end we still do not have the proper tax documentation needed for the taxman on every invoice. Customers complain about having paid Service Fee and Taxes to AirBNB already. Makes for discord and customers argue. Improper collection because AIRBnB does not provide this tax line item on the invoice makes your hosts NON-compliant legally and/or unaware TAX EVADERS. You are subjecting your serious AIRBnB hosts to a difficult and unpleasant audit process by the tax department.
Surely you can undertsand that AIRBNB do NOT have to REMIT Federal and Provincial taxes on our behalf, ...but please allow your hosts to collect the proper taxes and fulfil our legal TAX obligations. We work hard. We are serious AirBNB hosts. We earn seroius revenue/income and make AIrBNB serious revenue income. We shoudl not have to fight and argue for AirBNB to enable us to be tax compliant.
In our case we need legally to put the tax detail on the invoice... and as registered with the government, host, must collect 9.97% provincial tax and 5% federal tax. Total is 14.97%
AGAIN, it is law hosts produce clear invoices with accurate tax detail on same invoice to be remitted monthly, Goverment official and auditors look at all this when we are audited for compliancy.
Again, AIRBNB does NOT have to remit these taxes on our behalf... but AirBnB must understand and allow your hosts to charge the correct tax on the invoice, PLEASE.
All it is is "an additional line item"... The host ONLY is responsible for reporting and remitting tax. AIRBNB is no more responsible thsi line item than for a cleaning fee.
Example:
CAD 89.10 x 2 nights CAD 178.20 (Paid to Host, less AIRBNB service fees)
Occupancy Tax CAD 6.45 (Remitted by AIrBNB in Quebec)
Cleaning Fee CAD 6.00 (Paid to Host)
Provincial Tax 9.975% CAD 18.36 (Paid to Host)
Federal Tax 5% CAD 9.21 (Paid to Host)
Total Payable CAD 218.22 (Paid to Host)
Thank you for your attention to this serious matter.
ESCALATE HIGHER PLEASE!
Parissa and JT
Kokomo Inn
