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It actually doesn’t always. If Airbnb doesn’t support your local taxes system, you will have to submit a request for payment to your guest for more money. For i

by bradly 6y ago

It actually doesn’t always. If Airbnb doesn’t support your local taxes system, you will have to submit a request for payment to your guest for more money. For instance in Hawaii until a few months ago, there was no way to add the 14% hotel tax to the listing. We had to put a note in the description that said they would be charged an extra 14% after booking. I think many hosts simple don’t charge/pay the hotel tax because of the friction it adds to the transaction. We could ad it in the nightly rate, but then a service fee will be paid on it from the guest and the host.

3pt14159 6y ago
Oh please. That's a complete excuse. One is more than capable of rending out the room then keeping price/1.14 for themselves. These fine print notes for taxes were such malarky.
- bradly 6y ago
  That’s a pretty harsh response given that we went through lots of work to inform our Airbnb guests about the tax and provide local municipalities their hotel tax. It’s hurtful to here that called an excuse. Do you have rentals? Are you familiar with what the hotel tax can and cannot be applied to? We’ve been asking Airbnb for to natively support hotel tax in HI for years. Vrbo supported hotel tax from the beginning. You can’t just add 1.14 to the total and call it good. The taxes isn’t on the cleaning fee or service fee from Airbnb. They need to be separate. Are you implying that we preferred something unethical, but we had no choice for HI taxes. Most states had been supported for a while, but not all.
  - billpg 6y ago
    Are you saying that the law requires you to advertise the minus-tax amount? You can't work out what the hotel tax would be and include it in the price? I understand that showing prices without the sales tax is commonplace in the USA. I find that practice quite dodgy and "everyone does it" is a poor excuse.
- thrwn_frthr_awy 6y ago
  you actually can’t just multiply the total by the tax rate. typically only non-negotiatable items can have the hotel tax, so mid-stay cleanings, early/late check ins, and other charges cannot be taxed.

by bradly 6y ago

3pt14159 6y ago

Oh please. That's a complete excuse. One is more than capable of rending out the room then keeping price/1.14 for themselves. These fine print notes for taxes were such malarky.

bradly 6y ago
That’s a pretty harsh response given that we went through lots of work to inform our Airbnb guests about the tax and provide local municipalities their hotel tax. It’s hurtful to here that called an excuse. Do you have rentals? Are you familiar with what the hotel tax can and cannot be applied to? We’ve been asking Airbnb for to natively support hotel tax in HI for years. Vrbo supported hotel tax from the beginning. You can’t just add 1.14 to the total and call it good. The taxes isn’t on the cleaning fee or service fee from Airbnb. They need to be separate. Are you implying that we preferred something unethical, but we had no choice for HI taxes. Most states had been supported for a while, but not all.
- billpg 6y ago
  Are you saying that the law requires you to advertise the minus-tax amount? You can't work out what the hotel tax would be and include it in the price? I understand that showing prices without the sales tax is commonplace in the USA. I find that practice quite dodgy and "everyone does it" is a poor excuse.
thrwn_frthr_awy 6y ago
you actually can’t just multiply the total by the tax rate. typically only non-negotiatable items can have the hotel tax, so mid-stay cleanings, early/late check ins, and other charges cannot be taxed.