The young tech Bell Haven home owner has a massive internet presence.
My question is has she been collecting a paying the city's required transient occupancy tax?
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Did she remit the 12% transient occupancy tax
Original post made by whatever, Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park, on Aug 12, 2016
The young tech Bell Haven home owner has a massive internet presence.
My question is has she been collecting a paying the city's required transient occupancy tax?
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Posted by Apple
a resident of Atherton: other
on Aug 12, 2016 at 2:49 pm
a resident of Atherton: other
on Aug 12, 2016 at 2:49 pm
The transient occupancy tax (TOT) would not apply to this specific rental agreement. The room was rented to the same person for over a month. The TOT applies to rentals of up to 30 days only.
Posted by really?
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 12, 2016 at 4:25 pm
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 12, 2016 at 4:25 pm
The Airbnb loophole is in the definition:
'Hotel. "Hotel" means any structure, or any portion of any structure, which is occupied or intended or designed for occupancy by transients for dwelling, lodging or sleeping purposes, and includes any hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, studio, bachelor hotel, lodging house, rooming house, apartment house, dormitory, public or private club, mobilehome or house trailer at a fixed location, or other similar structure or portion thereof;'
Single Family private homes are not listed, so if you want to invite someone into a spare room and collect money, you're not a Hotel. But if you rent out the whole house, then I think it could be defined as a 'tourist house' so therefore a Hotel by this definition.
Posted by Whatever
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 12, 2016 at 6:17 pm
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 12, 2016 at 6:17 pm
Really...
The code does say any portion of any structure.
I do wish the codes were written in simple English and not in "code."
Posted by really?
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 12, 2016 at 6:24 pm
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 12, 2016 at 6:24 pm
I like 'bachelor hotel' myself....
But 'similar structures is all about those kinds of places, but it's obvious that single family homes is not the intention of the Code
