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This episode discusses the often-overlooked lodging tax compliance issues faced by short-term rental owners.

Most short-term rental owners assume Airbnb and Vrbo handle all of their lodging taxes. They don't. In this episode, Mark Lumpkin sits down with Julie Banting Rogers from Avalara to uncover one of the biggest blind spots in the STR industry: lodging tax compliance. Julie explains why thousands of hosts and property managers unknowingly fall out of compliance, how platform-collected taxes actually work, and why failing to file the right paperwork can result in massive penalties, interest, or e...

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Host: Mark Lumpkin

Guest: Julie Banting Rogers

Topics covered

• short-term rentals
• lodging tax compliance
• Airbnb taxes
• property management
• tax penalties

Keywords

• Airbnb
• Vrbo
• lodging taxes
• tax compliance
• property managers
• penalties
• interest

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Avalara, Airbnb, Vrbo

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