Spam on the new Airbnb groups

The same spammer Derek is posting spam/ads for his personal CPA business on all these posts:

community.airbnb.com/t5/General-Hosting/Taxes-how-much-should-I-estimate/m-p/2320#U2320

community.airbnb.com/t5/General-Hosting/The-space-I-listed-in-SF-is-a-timeshare-am-I-required-to/m-p/3476#M574

community.airbnb.com/t5/General-Hosting/Did-anyone-else-receive-an-email-from-the-SF-Tax-Collector/m-p/3473#M573

community.airbnb.com/t5/New-to-Hosting/taxes/m-p/3470#M208

community.airbnb.com/t5/New-to-Hosting/Are-local-tourist-etc-taxes-added-on-at-checkout-or-am-I/m-p/3474#M209


community.airbnb.com/t5/General-Hosting/Occupancy-tax/m-p/2611#U2611

HEre's the latter post:

Martha:

Did anyone else receive an email from the SF Tax Collector requiring action or else..?
Subject line reads: ACTION REQUIRED BY DECEMBER 1 for Short-Term Residential Rental Ho

PLEASE ADVISE. NOT SURE WHAT I NEED TO DO.

Thanks!
Martha

Deborah
Level 10
California, United States
Hi Martha
THere have been many posts about this on the Home Sharers of SF group, here:

www.airbnb.com/groups/51

You might want to go there and ask this, and probably keith or someone else who is a regular member of that group can help you with this.



Derek
Level 2
Los Angeles, California, United States
Hey there,

There are a ton of great resources here: www.SharedEconomyCPA.com - let me know if you have any follow-up questions.


Deborah
Level 10
California, United States
@derek, get out, there is nothing on your website ( a for-profit website for your CPA business) which addresses the very specific and often difficult situations that San Francisco hosts are uniquely facing at this time. There is one issue which has been much in the news and has been discussed at length among San Francisco hosts and which also has involved some hosts planning to sue the city of San Francisco for trying to double dip and collect back taxes twice, once from Airbnb for the hosts, and once from all the hosts individually. There is another issue, also unique to SF, that Airbnb has provided personal data about hosts to the Tax Collector in SF ( it doesn't do this in other cities) and the Tax Collector is thus now contacting all hosts in SF and telling them that they have to officially register as short term rental hosts and get a permit & business license for that.

It is great that you are providing free tax info to hosts on your site, but the method by which you are doing that appears much more like spamming and advertising than actually answering questions.