That is my understanding. Rental management companies find it quite frustrating that individual owners can get away with not paying bed tax if they choose to take the risk of getting caught.
and our BCC and TDC do nothing to try to remedy this?
That is my understanding. Rental management companies find it quite frustrating that individual owners can get away with not paying bed tax if they choose to take the risk of getting caught.
I know that the TDC would like to know, but I'm not sure what, if anything, can be done to require a private business to disclose who pays what in bed tax. For AirBNB and VRBO, etc., it would probably mean a manual search by looking up addresses with rental signs, finding owners, and then checking the clerk's office to see if they pay bed tax. That assumes that you can search the clerk's bed tax records. Sounds like a good fact finding mission. Maybe I'll look into it when I run out of things I have to get done!and our BCC and TDC do nothing to try to remedy this?
They are exempt from Public Records requests per state statute.
I had a former neighbor who conducted all of their rental transactions in Texas. Advertised and collected there. Seems they may have found a loophole.
Well this just gets more and more interesting...