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Municipal leaders ask for authority to tax and inspect short-term rentals to protect infrastructure and housing supply
Summary
The Vermont League of Cities and Towns told the House Committee on General and Housing that municipalities need new tools — such as registries, inspection authority and the ability to levy local taxes on short‑term rentals — to prevent newly created infill housing from converting to short‑term rentals and to pay for local impacts.
Testimony to the House Committee on General and Housing on Feb. 6 raised concerns that new infill housing permitted under Act 181 could instead become short-term rentals (STRs) unless towns are given more regulatory and taxing authority.
Samantha Sheehan, municipal policy specialist for the Vermont League of Cities and Towns, said municipalities “need the additional regulatory tools, including tax authority, to ensure that the new infill scale housing being created does not lead to a further proliferation of short term rentals.”…
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