Any suggestions on best practices for colleting lodging taxes?

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Our new STR is in a location where AirBnB/Vrbo does not collect lodging taxes on our behalf.  Any suggestions on how hosts manage tax collections on their own?

Thank you!

Ken Boone · Answer

You just tell Vrbo/Airbnb to add the extra fees, and they will collect them and send them to you.  What I think you are trying to say is that AirBnb/VRBO does not collect & submit the taxes on your behalf.  If I am wrong then my bad, but you should be able to add those feeds in there for the OTA to collect the taxes for you, to which you will have to submit the taxes yourself.

Brooklyn McCarty · Answer

I’ve used Avalara for three years. Very easy to use & does the remitting for me.  Well worth the money subscription

Heather Hall · Answer

Do you still use them?  I have tried to call Avalara a few times and cannot reach anyone?

Leslie Anne Morris · Answer

The player in the game is Avalara as previously previously mentioned, and they have no competition currently. They’ve just raised the rates and made it a lot more expensive.

Andrew Steffens · Answer

If you just have 1 or a few listings it will be a line item on your payouts you can track and remit them yourself.  If you are doing a few or more, you can get a PMS that will track this for you and then you can just pull a report and remit the taxes monthly.

Michael Baum · Answer

You can check out Avalara - https://www.avalara.com/us/en/...

They automate stuff like this. No idea what they charge.

Like @Ken Boone said, you can just add the fees as necessary.

John Underwood · Answer

There are some companies that will also do this for you. Not sure what they charge.

Any suggestions on best practices for colleting lodging taxes?

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