January 12, 2017
Airbnb users who rent out private rooms for five months a year or longer would have to collect hotel taxes under a proposal detailed Thursday by Governor Charlie Baker. The governor’s plan, to be included with his formal budget proposal later this month, would target a small group of landlords who operate high-volume rental businesses on Airbnb and similar sites, which include HomeAway, owned by Expedia, and FlipKey, owned by TripAdvisor. Baker estimates the tax would raise $12 million for the state in the 2018 fiscal year by applying hotel taxes to home-rental landlords operating “a de facto business.”…
Source: https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/01/12/baker-revives-airbnb-tax-proposal-for-frequent-renters/34iPW7Ixkjv6goEAMDTP9H/story.html
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