I am running an AirBnb in Mountain View, CA and by 7/1/2019 the city requires short term rentals be registered and a 10% occupancy tax is collected (the info I found at cityofnmountainview.gov is vague on if taxes are already supposed to be collected. I have written to the city.) I went to the local laws section of my listing and saw this:
Your listing is in Manhattan Beach, CA,West Hollywood, CA where Airbnb collects and remits occupancy taxes on your behalf.
which is puzzling af because I am nowhere near Manhattan Beach and West Hollywood. As far I know, people staying with me do not believe they are in 360 miles southeast of here in Manhattan beach, so AirBnB's maps do seem to know where my rental actually is. 😄
I followed the learn more and there is no information about taxes in my local county (Santa Clara). I have tried looking at booking costs under "reservation details" and it only lists the booking price and AirBnB's take (and the cleaning fee I recently implemented).
Anybody know what is going on here with the weird Local Laws information, and (much more of a longshot) how Occupancy Taxes will (or won't) be collected by AirBnB in Mountain View, CA?
Thanks
David
Is AirBnb collecting taxes on my bookings and sending them to the wrong place?