LIVINGSTON COUNTY – The County formally entered an agreement with Airbnb whereby the website and app will collect hotel-motel taxes from its users and pay them to the County. At Wednesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, the Board voted to enter a tax agreement with Airbnb, a website and app that allows private homeowners to rent rooms in their houses for short periods. Airbnb agreed to collect hotel-motel taxes from its users and pay them to … [Read more...]
Airbnb Agrees to Pay Bed Tax to Livingston County
LIVINGSTON COUNTY – The Livingston County Ways and Means Committee approved an agreement between the County and Airbnb for the company to collect and pay 'bed taxes' from their rooms to Livingston County. If the Livingston County Board of Supervisors gives the agreement final approval later this week, Airbnb would periodically pay the County the rental tax they had collected. "Airbnb would not be the actual taxpayer," said County Attorney … [Read more...]