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Marshall City council adopts ordinance requiring monthly lodging-tax reports
Summary
The Marshall City Council approved an ordinance that moves hotel lodging-tax reporting from quarterly to monthly, narrows the hotel definition to one or more rooms, and gives the Marshall Tourism Commission clearer audit authority and a nonpayment checklist. Airbnb and short-term rentals are excluded for now.
Marshall City — The Marshall City Council approved an ordinance changing how the city collects lodging taxes from hotels, moving from quarterly to monthly reporting and giving the Marshall Tourism Commission clearer authority to audit and follow up on unpaid reports.
The change requires hotels to file monthly tax reports and pay within 30 days after every month’s end, rather than reporting quarterly, according to Rebecca, Marshall’s tourism director. Rebecca said the tourism commission will use the new schedule to audit records more promptly and follow a nonpayment operations checklist the commission created.
The ordinance also revises the lodging definition: previously defined as properties with five rooms or more, the ordinance lowers…
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