Occupancy tax help!

[Joanne89]

I'm a new host in a city that has 9.5% tax required (only 4.5 is submitted to city, owner keeps 5% for admin).  Airbnb is automatically collecting 1.5% for my state of Oregon (that's what it says on my listing). I cannot find any way to add the remaining amount, or override this setting to collect the whole amount and directly remit to the state. I read in one of the articles that you can add a "special offer" to collect the rest when someone requests a booking... but that assumes you are not using the Instant Book feature. Can someone help??  This seems like a really basic feature that airbnb should offer, to allow hosts to set the percentage so we can follow local laws. 

[David126]

5% for admin sounds wrong, but I take it you have State and Town tax and AirBnB only has an agreement with the State.

If so just include anything else in your listing price.

[Joanne89]

Yes only the state (and city of Portland, I'm on the coast) have agreements with airbnb. I was shocked at the 5% but the city staff told me that when I was filling out forms. So after your comment I re-read the collection form and it's 5% of the total collected, makes more sense. However your method of adding tax to the published rate is not legal here. You're supposed to show the tax as a separate amount, applied as a percentage to your room rate. So the only way to do that is to use fixed pricing I guess.

[David126]

I know here you do not need to show the tax net and gross here, gas and beer are priced inclusive of tax. A few other things as well but they are the biggies.

There is no way in the AirBnB system of showing tax as a line item by a Host, maybe ask somebody local to you who uses AirBnB how they do it?

[Georgeann1]

I am having the same problem; Air BnB is now collecting 6% for my state tax but I also have to pay a 7% city tax and I have not found a way to add that in the upfront collection showing it as a city tax.  I do not want to manually collect money from guests for this city fee after they arrive.

Seems like this being a requirement Air BnB ought to have a way of entering it as a line item for our guests to see and understand.  

I haven't even figured out how to reach Air BnB directly to discuss this, anybody have a number I can try?

 Thanks for any help you can provide