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Sullivan County staff warn state changes to short‑term rental reporting could reduce tax collections
Summary
County staff told the Office of Management and Budget Committee that new state reporting expectations for short‑term rentals (STRs) may prompt platforms or vendors to stop sharing transaction-level data, complicating collection of room and sales taxes from private STR hosts.
Nancy Buck, a staff member in Sullivan County government, told the Office of Management and Budget Committee that forthcoming state changes to short‑term rental reporting could reduce the county’s ability to identify and collect taxes from private hosts.
"They're sort of threatening not to continue that," Buck said of Airbnb and VRBO, describing industry resistance to state-mandated reporting of who paid monies. She said the county currently receives bed‑tax collections from hotels, motels and bed‑and‑breakfasts but not from single‑family homes that operate as…
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