Short term rentals: hotel taxes or not?

Two views on this -- my view agrees with the Republican legislator's opinion that hotel taxes should not apply to Airbnb rentals because...we aren't hotels!!


www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west/2016/08/12/the-argument-should-short-term-rentals-subject-hotel-taxes/eQjPCYNxRDFsa2Vfx9QPsM/story.html