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Surprisingly, AirBNB only reports your host income if you have over $20,000 in earnings and 200+ bookings [1]. (These thresholds are set by statute)

Sounds like a legal fix is in order to get that down to a $600 threshold as applies to traditional 1099 reporting, but I'll assume a fix won't be made as the threshold was most likely set high as a compromise to enable such reporting to occur.

Luckily, AirBnB will collect occupancy taxes and can remit them to taxing authorities directly.

[1] https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/481/how-do-taxes-work-fo...



The federal threshold for reporting payments of income is $600, and there is no federal statutory threshold with respect to the number of bookings before reporting is required.

Curious that a technology company can't manage something that low-tech property management companies can handle without issue. This type of tax reporting is very easily automated, so AirBnB doesn't really have any excuse not to do it properly.


IRS guidelines (1099-K instructions) state the thresholds I stated; if they're not defined in law, the IRS is dictating the thresholds themselves.


Airbnb does a terrible job with occupancy tax. They only cover a few cities and do not provide any tools to collect tax at the time of booking.

VRBO/Homeaway does collect tax for you.

So I pay the tax out of my own airbnb earnings (it is regulated here so I have a license).

Which sucks because hotels can add the tax, after their daily rate. I just earn 10% less.




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