If you manage short-term rentals, each home carries a city registration, renewals, and lodging tax filings to as many as three different tax offices. Miss a date and the fines start, or the listing comes down. StayPermits tracks the rules city by city, and our free checker shows you exactly what is due across your portfolio.
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A Houston rental owes hotel tax to the state, the city, and the county, on three different calendars. Every layer requires a report even when no tax is due. Austin adds its own quarterly report, with proof of what the platforms collected.
Airbnb collects some taxes, in some places. In many cities, Vrbo does not collect local tax for managers who take payment through their own systems. And no platform renews your city permit. That part is still yours.
In Houston, if three of a manager's registration certificates are revoked within two years, the city can move against all of them. One neglected home can put the whole business at risk.
Registration certificates under Ordinance 2025-322: $275 per property per year, changes reported within 15 days, platform delisting from January 2027.
Operating licences, now valid two years: $736.60 new, $369.60 renewal. Quarterly city hotel tax reports, and local contact changes due within 3 business days.
Galveston, San Antonio, Nashville, Denver, Miami-Dade and Honolulu guides are being prepared from the same primary sources: the ordinances and the tax offices themselves.
Tell it your city, how many homes you manage, where your bookings come from, and whether your permits are current. It builds your due list: registrations, renewals, and filings, with the dates that matter. If you want the list sent to you and kept updated, leave an email. That is the whole exchange.
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