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I do believe a previous poster was correct... owners have always been responsible to pay to the state the 9% room and board tax. and infact that is what the snipet of the bill posted says..... Now having said that If you rent you cottage for only 1 week you probably fall into a exemption clause, even at the state level.

The problem is how many actually follow through with it? The state really has no way of knowing without doing a lot of cross referencing.... This bill they are hoping will allow them to do the cross referencing automatically.

This was one of the reasons we used a rental broker when we rented our place. The rental agency took care of the tax for us.

Now how much does it cost to get meals and rooms tax license? That is the real ticket.... because with this law you will now need one for the advertisement, if you handle your rental on your own.

This really smells like a wolf in sheeps clothing to me.... I believe the real drivers behind this are like rental agencies which are hoping to make it more difficult for private owners to do seasonal rentals on there own....Thus when the private homeowners find out how much the meals and room tax license costs and the paper work involved they will look for a rental agency that will take care of this for them.........

The other wolf I think I see hear is the group of people that want to see a decline in the amount of rental business.. Where they hope that some people will simply opt to no longer rent as they can't skirt around the tax law, and are required to have a meals and rooms tax license.....