File and Remit Taxes for Direct Premium

Feature requestsDirectJun 29, 2023

Wherever possible, start filing and remitting taxes for Direct Premium hosts so they don't have to.

Hospitable is already calculating taxes with the applicable amount for each transaction, and including this to the payment of the guest and the payout of the host.
This (mostly operational) feature would allow Hospitable, both legally and technically, to file and remit taxes as a marketplace / payment facilitator on behalf of the tax subjects, to applicable jurisdiction.

Our first destination for filing and remitting taxes is Tennessee, home to several major short-term rental markets in the United States, with a legal framework that makes it easy to file and remit taxes as a marketplace.

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Brandon Huetteman

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Apr 7

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Hi all! We wanted to provide a quick update on tax remittance as it has been mentioned in our community.

As of today, Hospitable now remits some or all tax in 48/50 states with the work in progress to expand to Alaska, Nevada, Puerto Rico, and Washington DC! To see the updates specifically over the last few months, refer to our Hospitable Community post. Also, we encourage you to join us in the Community to keep up to date as we continue to evolve and expand tax remittance, as well as join the conversation on what taxes you are looking forward to remittance next! Here, you will find more frequent updates as noted.

Please note that this list in the Community is a summary of the taxes that have been newly added to remittance. For detailed information on each tax and the tax type, please refer to the How Taxes are Handled in Direct help article where you can select the specific state to determine how and if these taxes will apply to you. These taxes apply to the following:

Direct Premium
Upsells (purchased through Hospitable)
VRBO Official bookings (processed by Hospitable as the Merchant of Record)

Also, each tax may have a different effective date that we began retaining and remitting on your behalf. Be sure to review taxes to determine if they are pass-through on specific bookings, upsells, etc. or if they are remitted on your behalf. You can review this in a few ways:

Each individual reservation booking and financial description will note the taxes and types that were charged and if they are pass-through to you
Go to Metrics → Exports → Taxes in your Hospitable dashboard to see a breakdown of the taxes and types that were remitted on your behalf or pass-through to you

We understand that with the VRBO official integration, tax remittance is ever more important for our customers to effectively manage their business. We are working diligently in the background to expand to as many local jurisdictions as possible.

While we cannot provide an exact timeline on when a new tax will be added (primarily given the structure of jurisdictions and registration policies), we are focused to provide expansion updates in a timely and more frequent manner. When assessing our roadmap and timing, we consider Direct Premium/VRBO booking volumes and taxes that VRBO already remits to be able to pair with your current processes. Our goal is to achieve tax remittance in as many jurisdictions that we can!

Indigo Mustard

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Feb 22, 2024

State taxes are generally easy, because they are only so many states. However, the difficulty is in county, city & local taxes because there are so many more of them -- prolly thousands. It would be a real value to Hospitable subscribers to support all state/county/city/local taxes without me having to lift a finger. I'm actually waiting on this right now.

Silver Hubble
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Dec 22, 2025
This is my greatest concern as well. As a co-host, I can’t justify remitting taxes on behalf of 30+ owners we co-host with. The day Hospitable collects and remits down to the local level is the day we will launch Direct again.

Gray Radar

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Jun 13, 2024

This should be optional. Users should still have the option to take care of this themselves, if they prefer.

Azure Waterfall

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Jul 24, 2024

It is a pain to have to remit county taxes every month. I want to train a VA to do this for me but am unsure about trusting them with my finances. I would rather that Hospitable does this automatically for us.

Crimson Prairie
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Jul 14, 2025
I use a VA for this - she's amazing!

Moccasin Croissant

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Jan 27, 2025

When is NC going to be live with this?

Brandon Huetteman

Team•

Dec 1, 2025

As of December 1, 2025, we are now remitting taxes for Direct Premium users in the following states with a variety mix of state and local jurisdiction taxes: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

If you have a property in these locations and the applicable tax applies to your property for Direct Premium, no action is required on your part—these taxes will be automatically retained and remitted on your behalf. Please note that this list is a summary of the taxes that have been newly added to remittance for Direct Premium users. For detailed information on each tax and the tax type, please refer to the How Taxes are Handled in Direct help article where you can select the specific state to determine how and if these taxes will apply to you.

Any other applicable taxes that are not listed or previously communicated will continue to be collected as a pass-through to you. You are responsible for remitting all pass-through taxes to the appropriate jurisdiction in accordance with local regulations and compliance. Further, any tax not collected and remitted on your behalf by Hospitable prior to this date were and will continue to be your responsibility to remit as necessary to state and local jurisdictions and/or tax authorities.

We encourage you to join us in the Hospitable Community to keep up to date as we continue to evolve and expand tax remittance, as well as join the conversation on what taxes you are looking forward to remittance next!

Bronze Fries

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Sep 10, 2024

This would increase our confidence in taking direct bookings!

Brandon Huetteman

Team•

Apr 3, 2025

As of today, tax filing and remittance is live in the following eight states: AZ, HI, ME, MI, TN, TX, VT, and WA. Up next, we are reviewing the integration and inclusion of the following four states: AL, NJ, NY, and UT. The goal is to expand remittance to all 50 states, and we are reviewing each state on a case-by-case basis to file and remit. We will continue to provide updates as our efforts expand coverage to additional states. For additional information relating to taxes, refer to How Taxes are handled in Direct.

Aquamarine Oak
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Apr 3, 2025
Hi - Can you please confirm that the 1% Rutland City, not Rutland Town is included in the tax collection and remittances for Vermont.
- Brandon Huetteman
  Team•
  Apr 3, 2025
  For VT, we are remitting all state & local sales taxes and state lodging taxes. Local lodging taxes are pass-through to the hosts.
  Aquamarine Oak
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  Apr 3, 2025
  Excellent. Airbnb cannot even do that!