Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri, voters approve short-term rentals tax, lodging fees
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, voters accredited the town’s plan to gather the 7.5% conference and tourism tax on short-term leases in addition to elevate its lodging and tourism charge throughout Tuesday’s major election.
The town will elevate its lodging and tourism charge from $1.50 per bed room per occupied evening to a most of $3. Inns and motels would additionally gather the elevated lodging charge, which has not seen a rise since 2004.
The lodging charge and tourism tax are handed on to visitors, and operators don’t pay these taxes.
Quick-term leases are properties, or rooms inside properties, which homeowners checklist for lease for fewer than 30 days at a time. Folks sometimes use trip rental websites like Airbnb and Vrbo for promoting the rental.
The KCMO Metropolis Council voted Jan. 12 to place the 2 questions on the April 4 poll.
Metropolis leaders held a press convention the following day the place they pledged to do extra to guard neighborhoods.
A two-part, city-wide audit launched final November confirmed Kansas Metropolis, Missouri’s, incapability to tax short-term leases much like resorts in addition to the extraordinarily low charge of registered leases, which is simply 7%.
From July 2021 to August 2022, the Kansas Metropolis’s Auditor Workplace estimates there was a lack of $2.28 million from the 7.5% conference and tourism tax and $353,600 from the lodge, motel occupancy charge of $1.50 for every used room.
The town beforehand didn’t gather a conference and tourism tax or a lodging charge from short-term leases because it does from resorts and motels.
The Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, Neighborhood Planning and Improvement Committee is about to debate the 2 ordinances Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.
The short-term rental registration course of might begin as early as Could 15. Nonetheless, the town received’t be capable to capitalize on the 1000’s on the town for the NFL Draft, which is from April 27-29.
—