October 8, 2016
Online technology helped the vacation-rental business sprout in the Florida Keys, and now it may help identify unallowed rentals. Monroe County officials are researching a proposal from an online firm that says it can search more than a dozen major online vacation-rental websites and provide information on local “hosts” to code-enforcement officers and the tax collector. “We’re still looking it,” Monroe County Tax Collector Denise Henriquez said Friday. “We want to make sure it can give us the information we need so we can find out if people are operating legally and paying their taxes.”…
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