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Drew WilsonJune 8, 2018

Vacation rental platform Airbnb announced Friday that it has collected and remitted more than $12 million in tax revenue to Miami-Dade and Broward counties over the past year. Those collections are from separate agreements agreed to by each county’s commission that saw Airbnb start automatically collecting 6 percent bed taxes and remitting the revenue directly […]

Associated PressFebruary 6, 2017

Hotel tax revenue in Miami-Dade has dropped at a rate not seen since the Great Recession, a decline in public money some attribute to tourists afraid of the Zika virus. Hotel taxes in December fell from the amount generated the previous year — the fourth month in a row that happened. It is a slump […]

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Tag: Hotel tax revenue

Airbnb delivers $12 million in South Florida tax revenue

Fueled by Zika fears, Miami’s hotel tax revenue sags