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Warren County prepares to tax, regulate Airbnb

Warren County property owners are doing a small but bustling business in renting out their houses, and the county will soon start taxing them for it. Regulations are also in the works, with Queensbury ... read more

How Cities Across the U.S. Are Using Philanthropy to Combat Inequality

Besides helping people save, says Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, the initiative aims to protect low-income residents from for-profit tax preparers ... need to start treating Airbnb like any other ... read more

Hosting through Airbnb? Prepare to pay BBB

The combined city, state and county sales tax rate is 8.95 percent. The added BBB tax is 2.0 percent. All three websites allow property owners to add sales taxes to their listed prices. In some cities ... read more

Traditional lodging industry sees built-in disadvantage for Airbnb

HARRISBURG — Airbnb ... 5 percent hotel tax, according to the state Department of Community and Economic Development. Mercer, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Somerset, Venango and Warren counties tax ... read more

Town tackles short-term rentals

A new law which went into effect July 1 allows localities in Virginia to regulate short-term rentals such as rooms offered through the popular online Airbnb platform ... the town, county and your tax ... read more

Can Chicago's Old-School Bed-And-Breakfasts Survive Airbnb?

[DNAinfo/Alisa Hauser] New regulations for Airbnb owners, delayed and watered down by legal challenges, finally took effect on Wednesday. They levy an extra 4 percent tax ... preparation" can be ... read more

Raleigh votes to allow some Airbnbs, but will start enforcing a ban on others

Airbnb has previously said it has more than 600 hosts in Wake County but did not break down how many rented out their entire homes or just a room. The company said it generated $24 million in tax ... read more

Lack of long-term plan for short-term rentals has Georgia man's glamping business on hold [photos]

Multiple county leaders said they want Johnson's business. At the same time, they want him to wait as they consider how to regulate Airbnbs long ... Last year, Airbnb agreed to collect sales tax on ... read more

Bank of America to raise minimum wage company wide

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos still had his base salary set at $81,840, the same as it was in 1998, the year after Amazon’s IPO, while billionaire Warren ... regulate vacation rentals. The state’s role, ... read more

FOXBORO 2026? — Prosecutors want Senate’s HEFNER records — WALSH passes on mayors’ marijuana coalition

Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, led a group of House and Senate ... widely regarded as one of the party’s best orators. But as Patrick prepares to campaign for Democratic congressional candidates ... read more

Answers from S.C.'s governor candidates

Warren: “Demand accountability so that at ... For example, if Marion County wants a casino, then let’s build a casino, regulate and tax it." Pass a law requiring equal pay for women. Expand programs ... read more

Petaluma marks progress in regulation of short-term rentals

After a more than two-year battle to regulate short-term ... as other cities and Sonoma County wrestle with how to govern short-term rentals that have increasingly been monetized by property owners ... read more