Imposed occupancy tax in "Special Offers"

[Sean69]

Hello, and apologies if this is the wrong place for this question or if it has been answered before. I've scoured for hours looking for what seems to be a straightforward issue.

I would like to extend a special offer to a guest. Doing so automatically includes an occupancy tax on their end. My price already includes the required state and city tax. In fact, the occupancy tax requested by airbnb is about 2 times the actual tax (13%) for the booking. In addition, I have no idea where this "tax" is going, and whether it will be reported to the right city and state (which I do manually every month).

Any ideas what could cause this, and what it is being calculated from? Is there a way to remove this occupancy tax? 

Thank you graciously in advance,

.Sean

[Marcelle10]

I am having problems with this too.  I just found out the occupancy taxes that are charged are covering a Florida state tax and another one (discretionary tax) but not the one for my county (Sarasota County, FL).  I would like to know how to charge for this.  I agree.  I don't really know if Airbnb will pay these other taxes even though they do charge for them.