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Committee substitute would make short‑term rental platforms responsible for hotel tax collection
Summary
A Senate committee approved a substitute to Senate Bill 2805 that updates the legal definition of “hotel” to include third‑party short‑term rental platforms and assigns them the duty to collect hotel tax rather than individual homeowners, Senator Johnson said.
Senate Bill 2805, as amended by a committee substitute, would update the statutory definition of “hotel” to cover third‑party facilitators of short‑term rentals and make those platforms responsible for collecting hotel taxes rather than individual homeowners, Senator Johnson told the committee.
The change is aimed at clarifying collection responsibility for listings on services such as Airbnb, VRBO and Expedia, Johnson said. “This clarifies that it is the intent that, all…
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