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Representative Pazuli: House Bill 109 would centralize lodging-tax collection for home-sharing platforms and protect local safety rules
Summary
Representative Pazuli told the committee House Bill 109 would require platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo to collect and remit local lodging taxes, aim to protect home-sharing property rights, allow electronic real-estate licensing, and provide local governments new revenue for enforcement; many implementation details were said to be worked out in future substitutes or amendments.
Representative Pazuli presented sponsored testimony on House Bill 109, saying the bill would require short-term rental platforms to collect and remit local lodging taxes, restore parity between home-sharing units and hotels, and provide local governments revenue they currently cannot collect. Pazuli said rural districts in her region lack hotel capacity and that home-sharing units "outnumber hotel beds" there. She told the committee short-term rentals…
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