I live in Florida and am new to Airbnb but rent thru vacation rentals also where they do offer an automatic add on area for collecting sales tax and tourist tax. Florida dept of revenue is 7% for my area AND tourist tax is 4%. two differnt taxes.
Airbnb collected $ 80.00 on my behlaf in an occupancy tax and then gave me no further information than that. the information provided by airbnb is very vague
Heres my questions:
1. Is airbnb calling a toursit tax an occupany tax and are they also including the sales tax ...again there are 2 different taxes (state and county) which one are they collecting for?
2. how did they calculate it? what is the percent they used?
3. who did they remit the money they collect to? Florida Dept of Revenue for sales tax and the Local tax collector for tourist tax?
4. Under whos name did they remit that so Im certain I received credit?
5. And why is there not a phone number to airbnb so that I can call and talk to a real person?