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Committee hears House Bill 1086 to keep single‑family short‑term rentals classified as residential; industry witnesses urge state standard
Summary
House Bill 1086 would require single‑family homes leased for under 30 consecutive days to be classified only as residential property; sponsors said several counties reclassifying such homes as commercial have sharply increased owners’ tax bills.
Representative Brown introduced House Bill 1086 to revise Chapter 137 to state that a single‑family home leased for less than 30 consecutive days is classified only as residential property, and that leasing a single‑family home for less than 30 days “does not in itself constitute transient housing.”
Brown and multiple witnesses said assessors in several counties recently reclassified short‑term rental homes from residential to commercial, which increases assessed valuation (the sponsor described moving from a 19% assessment rate for residential to a 32% rate on commercial property in one example). The sponsor and witnesses described cases in Taney County, Stone County and other tourist areas where owners of vacation cabins…
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