Good Morning @Justin1328 - I watched a BDO education video in Feb/March time frame re: the HST changes that were coming effective July 1, 2021. At that time, I reached out to AIRBNB asking for clarification re: how they would be implementing these changes on their platform. Inadequate answers. I followed up multiple times. There should have been a development project under way to implement these changes. They should have been in testing/development.
After July 1st, I continued to ask, test the website logic, no HST being charged. Completely inadequate and incompetent answers from the support desk. It looks to me like they have no plans to do HST remittances, and are pushing the responsibility to the individual hosts. Personally I have my own HST #, do my own remittances, bury the 13% in my nightly rate on AIRBNB. I'm collecting, and track within my own invoicing application.
My gut is that either AIRBNB doesn't understand the CRA guidelines, and how to do an HST return, or they are flat out refusing to do it, and passing the buck to the host. From what I know of the legislation, the HST invoicing obligation is with AIRBNB platform, not the host. I predict they'll have a rude awakening the first time they miss an HST return, and get audited by CRA.
That is my personal opinion.
Good Luck, Justin.