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County treasurer asks for hotel-occupancy tax software to identify short-term rentals and enable online payments
Summary
Brazos County’s treasurer requested up to $50,000 in hotel-occupancy-tax funds for a collection portal and software to identify and bill short‑term rental properties; treasurer said state remittances lack property-level detail and staff expect the software to pay for itself.
Christian, Brazos County’s treasurer, asked the Commissioners Court on Aug. 11 for up to $50,000 from the county’s hotel‑occupancy‑tax (HOT) fund to buy collection and identification software for short‑term rentals.
"The request for was for 50,000. That request includes both the payment portal and the identification of short term rentals," Christian said, adding that the legislature permitted counties to use HOT revenue for such software and that the funds would come from the…
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