Post by High Priestess on Feb 18, 2016 4:29:16 GMT
Nic and Rach shared May 2015
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Tax changes in North Carolina Effective June 1 2015
Working Together with North Carolina to Make Tax Rules SimpleMay 18, 2015 By Max PomerancMany hotel and tourist tax rules were designed for big corporations with teams of lawyers and accountants — but you shouldn’t need those just to share your extra bedroom. For more than a year, we have been working with cities and counties across the country to add more communities to the list of places where we can help hosts collect and remit hotel taxes.Today, we are happy to announce that beginning June 1, 2015, Airbnb will begin collecting and remitting hotel taxes from guests on behalf of hosts statewide in North Carolina and locally in the counties of Buncombe, Durham, Mecklenburg and Wake. This announcement comes after months of work between Airbnb and authorities across North Carolina on how to make it simpler for local residents to follow the rules and pay their fair share.Our community in North Carolina already brings significant economic and cultural benefits to the state, and this is another way we can make North Carolina an even better place to live and visit. We are proud to work with local leaders to implement this initiative.“Airbnb is a popular piece of the new sharing economy that tourists and prospective residents expect to see in modern cities, so we are glad that we have taken the first step in welcoming Airbnb to Raleigh,” said Raleigh City Councilor Mary-Ann Baldwin. Baldwin is chair of the city council’s Law and Public Safety Committee.Airbnb first began collecting and remitting hotel and tourist taxes from guests on behalf of hosts in San Francisco and Portland. Since then we have worked together with forward thinking authorities on similar initiatives in Amsterdam, Chicago, Malibu, San Jose and Washington D.C. We are also working with policy makers in France on similar plans to roll out across the country.As we move forward, we’ll continue our work with leaders in North Carolina on clear, fair rules for home sharing. We are confident that we can work together on some simple policies that embrace home sharing and make North Carolina communities stronger.
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Rick9 months ago
we are hoping that something like that will come about in Georgia as well....it will simplify things for everyone!
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Nic and Rach9 months ago
I totally agree Rick and this morning I have 2 alerts from Airbnb re: Collecting Occupancy tax from the guests...Starting June 01, 2015, Airbnb will collect and remit Occupancy Taxes for your listings in North Carolina. Learn more
Starting June 01, 2015, Airbnb will collect and remit Occupancy Taxes for your listings in Wake County, North Carolina. Learn more.
We are so glad that this is the outcome and from a long battle with the city council.. instead of shutting us down. What a relief !
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Nic and Rach9 months ago
oops something happened...we are looking into it.. ( a bug ) sorry for the double post its the systems fault..
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Rick9 months ago
This is great news!! You won't have to be paying taxes out of your earnings hmmm. I wonder if taxes collected will be reported as "earnings" & thus still tax deductible.
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Deborah9 months ago
It's always better if Airbnb can collect the taxes directly in any given city, where taxes are to be collected, due to just what you say, RIck -- the host no longer has to be responsible to collect them and pay out of their earnings. Now I have another issue altogether with any city collecting taxes for people staying at private homes, as I think that's wrong.... in my state, California,there was a state legislator who introduced a bill to ban cities from collecting taxes on these kinds of short term rentals at private homes. However it's not a bill that's likely to win, apparently. But I do believe cities would love to tax people for walking their dog or pruning our shrubbery if they could get away with it.
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www.airbnb.com/groups/content/content-136364
Tax changes in North Carolina Effective June 1 2015
Working Together with North Carolina to Make Tax Rules SimpleMay 18, 2015 By Max PomerancMany hotel and tourist tax rules were designed for big corporations with teams of lawyers and accountants — but you shouldn’t need those just to share your extra bedroom. For more than a year, we have been working with cities and counties across the country to add more communities to the list of places where we can help hosts collect and remit hotel taxes.Today, we are happy to announce that beginning June 1, 2015, Airbnb will begin collecting and remitting hotel taxes from guests on behalf of hosts statewide in North Carolina and locally in the counties of Buncombe, Durham, Mecklenburg and Wake. This announcement comes after months of work between Airbnb and authorities across North Carolina on how to make it simpler for local residents to follow the rules and pay their fair share.Our community in North Carolina already brings significant economic and cultural benefits to the state, and this is another way we can make North Carolina an even better place to live and visit. We are proud to work with local leaders to implement this initiative.“Airbnb is a popular piece of the new sharing economy that tourists and prospective residents expect to see in modern cities, so we are glad that we have taken the first step in welcoming Airbnb to Raleigh,” said Raleigh City Councilor Mary-Ann Baldwin. Baldwin is chair of the city council’s Law and Public Safety Committee.Airbnb first began collecting and remitting hotel and tourist taxes from guests on behalf of hosts in San Francisco and Portland. Since then we have worked together with forward thinking authorities on similar initiatives in Amsterdam, Chicago, Malibu, San Jose and Washington D.C. We are also working with policy makers in France on similar plans to roll out across the country.As we move forward, we’ll continue our work with leaders in North Carolina on clear, fair rules for home sharing. We are confident that we can work together on some simple policies that embrace home sharing and make North Carolina communities stronger.
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Rick9 months ago
we are hoping that something like that will come about in Georgia as well....it will simplify things for everyone!
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Nic and Rach
Nic and Rach9 months ago
I totally agree Rick and this morning I have 2 alerts from Airbnb re: Collecting Occupancy tax from the guests...Starting June 01, 2015, Airbnb will collect and remit Occupancy Taxes for your listings in North Carolina. Learn more
Starting June 01, 2015, Airbnb will collect and remit Occupancy Taxes for your listings in Wake County, North Carolina. Learn more.
We are so glad that this is the outcome and from a long battle with the city council.. instead of shutting us down. What a relief !
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Nic and Rach
Nic and Rach9 months ago
oops something happened...we are looking into it.. ( a bug ) sorry for the double post its the systems fault..
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Rick
Rick9 months ago
This is great news!! You won't have to be paying taxes out of your earnings hmmm. I wonder if taxes collected will be reported as "earnings" & thus still tax deductible.
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Deborah
Deborah9 months ago
It's always better if Airbnb can collect the taxes directly in any given city, where taxes are to be collected, due to just what you say, RIck -- the host no longer has to be responsible to collect them and pay out of their earnings. Now I have another issue altogether with any city collecting taxes for people staying at private homes, as I think that's wrong.... in my state, California,there was a state legislator who introduced a bill to ban cities from collecting taxes on these kinds of short term rentals at private homes. However it's not a bill that's likely to win, apparently. But I do believe cities would love to tax people for walking their dog or pruning our shrubbery if they could get away with it.
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