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Airbnb says county agreements should lead it to equal 2016 tax payments in first six months

Published on June 27, 2017 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Scott Powers

Vacation home-rental marketing giant Airbnb said Tuesday its expanding list of tax agreements and its growing business should lead it to equal last year’s total sales and tourist tax payments just in the first six months of 2017. The company announced that its five-month totals in sales and tourist taxes paid to the state and individual counties surpassed $18 million through June 1, so it expects to clear $20 million by July 1. Last year the company’s combined total for…

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Airbnb reaches agreement with Hillsborough County over tourist taxes

Published on December 21, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Scott Powers

Airbnb has reached an agreement Wednesday with the Hillsborough County Tax Collector Office, in a deal that could immediately add thousands of dollars in county revenue. Home hosts in Hillsborough will begin paying bed taxes for overnight guests, which is estimated at about one-quarter million dollars a year. Airbnb will collect and remit taxes from 838 property owners countywide who rent out bedrooms, apartments and even entire houses as lodging for visitors, Hillsborough County Tax Collector Doug Belden said in a statement…

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Al Lang Stadium expansion wouldn’t rob Rays stadium money

Published on March 9, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

A proposed expansion of Al Lang Stadium on the downtown St. Pete waterfront would require bed tax funds from the county. So would a new baseball stadium if the Rays decide to stay in St. Pete. But contrary to buzz following reports Tuesday on the proposal, one project would not rob funds from the other. According to Pinellas County Commissioner Ken Welch, the two projects would receive funding from different pots within the county’s bed tax revenue. “We ‘reserve’ approximately…

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St. Pete City Council to ask Pinellas commissioners to hold off on allocating bed tax dollars until Rays deal is secured

Published on October 7, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

There’s not much going on at St. Pete City Council this week. The board is faced with only a handful of presentations from various groups around town and a change to an existing resolution. Even though nothing substantive is planned this week, the issue at hand is a biggie. The eight-member City Council is tasked with approving a revised resolution that would ask the Tourist Development Council and Pinellas County Commission to not allocate any tourist development funding that was…

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St. Pete City Council moves on three measures aimed at keeping Rays baseball in town

Published on March 5, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

St. Pete City Council voted unanimously to approve three measures related to the Tampa Bay Rays continuing to play baseball in St. Petersburg. Council member Wengay Newton was absent for the vote. The first measure is a symbolic resolution showing council’s intention to work with the Major League Baseball team to keep them in St. Petersburg beyond the terms of their current contract that requires the team to play ball in Tropicana Field through 2027. “I hope the Rays understand…

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