Arlington’s recently adopted rules regulating Airbnb-style short-term rentals in the county are beginning to funnel some cash into the government’s coffers.
“We have established 67 business-tax accounts” as of late August, Commissioner of Revenue Ingrid Morroy told the Sun Gazette. Those accounts tee up property owners to pay business-license fees, personal-property taxes and transient-occupancy taxes related to using homes for short-term rentals.
Through July, just under $18,000 had been assessed via the 7.25-percent transient-occupancy tax, which is split between the local and state governments, with another $780 via the business-license tax, Morroy said. (While the county commissioner of revenue dues the assessing, the treasurer does the collecting.)
