April 12, 2017
Airbnb guests in Houston will be charged a 6 percent hotel occupancy tax starting next month. On May 1, the home rental website will start collecting and remitting the statewide hotel occupancy tax as part of a new agreement with the state of Texas, the San Francisco-based company announced April 12. Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar commended Airbnb for agreeing to collect state hotel occupancy taxes, required of all lodging facilities across the Lone Star State. “The sharing economy plays an important role in our state’s overall fiscal health,” Hegar said in a statement…