Anatomy of Dallas Short Term Rental Ordinance

How did Dallas begin taxing short term rentals? When a company the City hired to collect back taxes sent bills for unpaid hotel occupancy tax to short term rental owners

How will Dallas collect the hotel tax from short term rentals moving forward?

• hosts will pay quarterly taxes
• will not allow rental apps to collect the tax like the State of Texas and other municipalities do

How will regulation move forward? A task force will make recommendations to City Council

What are the challenges?

• Distinguish between individual property owners &  corporate entities operating multiple properties
• San Francisco-based Sonder intends to rent an entire 27-story apartment building in Uptown and run all 270 units as short-term rentals for 10 years

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