Taxing issue THIS is urgent! Florida Hosts!

[Carmen-And-Jim0]

OK a fellow Florida host called the state of florida about AirBnB collecting the 6 percent and they were told from thier local office of STATE of florida that because AIRBNB justs gives a lump sum to the state of florida and does not give the individual amounts, Tax id number of who the property belong to, etc. They do not know what you reported.

MEANING: if you don't want a aduit you have to collect the 6% again and report and get dinged on your listing.....I am having a all day phone call with Alvara, Air, and state of florida , tomorrow since my phone calls to the state ALSO stated if I am Licensed and have a tax ID I must report and file taxes for the month of confusing December.

I will convey what either me and the other florida host has resolved with the state of Florida. Thanks God Air is not collecting Miami taxes for now.

[Jim128]

Well fellow Osceola person - AirBnB collected both state and County taxes and planed to submit the County Taxes to Polk County in error.  I caught that before the guest arrived.

After back and forth for 1 month Aron the tax person figured out a solution for me.  Keep the Florida tax money and give the guest back the County taxes.

Well, this decision was made without consulting the guest or the host.  So I had to chase the guest for the "refund" he gave them.

I managed to get the "refund" money back and i will submit these monies to the County Tax office personally.

Now I wonder how i can prove that the State Tax money they collected is actually being submitted in my name.

What i have now seen it that new guests will only pay state tax and i will collect county tax separately and personnally submit them.  

I asked Aaron (AirBnB tax guy) several times to "just give me all the tax money you collected and I will submit it personally" like it do with VRBO and Tripadvisor.

I guess they can't think outside the box.

What i have done is bosted by rates by the 7.5% county tax and will just let AirBnB do the State taxes (I hope).

jim

[Nanci7]

I have just discovered that if you rent your private Florida home for 30 days or more for 2 consecutive years, you loose your homestead exemption 

[Milagros0]

Where did you find this info?  Please give reference.

[Ellen341]

FYI Florida hosts 

Legislation is under consideration in the Florida Statehouse SB 824 is a bill that protects private property rights of homeowners in Florida to rent their property as they decide is best for them – including using that property as a vacation rental.

The bill is up for a hearing Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 26th in the Senate Innovation, Industry & Technology Committee. There will be an amendment making changes to the original version, but still strengthening preemption of vacation rental regulations to the state.

Please take a minute to send a message  ( https://p2a.co/0FDULVj    <-----copy and paste this address) to Florida Senators to support vacation rentals by accepting amendment barcode #586172 to SB 824.

[Dick-and-Ulli0]

AriBnB is pulling the same all over the country.   Completely unauditable taxes.  Not only are they paying taxes to the wrong countries, cities in many cases, they will leave the host hanging in the wind if you ever get audited.    I've been trying for 7 months to have them correct the location on a listing, they keep saying its expedited.  7 months!    I've sent in rental certificates, maps, gps coordinate, property tax statements.   I've come to the conclussion that AirBnB really doesn't give a rats ass about hosts.   Except for the money they can skim off your bookings.